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Red Hat Enterprise: RHSA-2009:0271-01 Important: GStreamer Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Enhanced gstreamer-plugins-good versions now available for Red Hat to address severe media framework vulnerabilities. Users should consider upgrading promptly.
Updated gstreamer-plugins-good packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a collection of well-supported, GStreamer plug-ins of good quality released under the LGPL license.
Multiple heap buffer overflows and an array indexing error were found in the GStreamer's QuickTime media file format decoding plugin. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted QuickTime media .mov file that would cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code if played by a victim. (CVE-2009-0386, CVE-2009-0387, CVE-2009-0397)
All users of gstreamer-plugins-good are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the update, all applications using GStreamer (such as totem or rhythmbox) must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software update heap overflow important security impact gstreamer media plugin issue

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0386 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0387 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0397 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
ia64: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.ia64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.ia64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.ia64.rpm
ppc: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.ppc.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.ppc64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0271-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0271.html
Issue date: 2009-02-06

Topic

Updated gstreamer-plugins-good packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software update heap overflow important security impact gstreamer media plugin issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

481267 - CVE-2009-0397 gstreamer-plugins, gstreamer-plugins-good: heap-based buffer overflow while parsing malformed QuickTime media files via crafted Time-to-sample (stss) atom data

483736 - CVE-2009-0386 gstreamer-plugins-good: heap-based buffer overflow while parsing malformed QuickTime media files via crafted Composition Time To Sample (aka ctts) atom data

483737 - CVE-2009-0387 gstreamer-plugins-good: Array index error while parsing malformed QuickTime media files via crafted Sync Sample (aka stss) atom data

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