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openSUSE: 2023:4271-1 Critical: Gstreamer-Plugins-Bad RCE Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2023
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Critical announcement regarding gstreamer-plugins-bad addresses remote code execution vulnerability in openSUSE environments. Update has been released.
This update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following issues: CVE-2023-40474: Fixed a remote code execution issue due to improper parsing of H265 encoded video files (bsc#12157...

Description

This update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-40474: Fixed a remote code execution issue due to improper parsing

of H265 encoded video files (bsc#1215793).

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP5-2023-4271=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP5-2023-4271=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-4271=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-4271=1

Package List

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libgstisoff-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgsttranscoder-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-GstBadAudio-1_0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-GstMpegts-1_0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-debugsource-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstwayland-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstva-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstvulkan-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstcodecparsers-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-GstInsertBin-1_0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstmpegts-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-devel-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-chromaprint-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstwebrtc-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstwayland-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstvulkan-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstbasecamerabinsrc-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* libgstcodecparsers-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-CudaGst-1_0-1.22.0-150500.3.6.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1215793

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40474.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215793

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4271-1
Rating: important

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