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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:0269-01 Important GStreamer Media Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has rolled out enhancements for gstreamer-plugins addressing a significant media encoding bug. Vital security notice from the Red Hat Team.
Updated gstreamer-plugins packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by...

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

The gstreamer-plugins package contains plug-ins used by the GStreamer streaming-media framework to support a wide variety of media types.
An array indexing error was found in the GStreamer's QuickTime media file format decoding plug-in. 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-2009-0398)
All users of gstreamer-plugins are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, all applications using GStreamer (such as nautilus-media) must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important QuickTime gstreamer media format array indexing error

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0398 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.6.0-19.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-19.i386.rpm
ia64: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.ia64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.6.0-19.ia64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-19.ia64.rpm
ppc: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.ppc.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.6.0-19.ppc.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-19.ppc.rpm
s390: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.s390.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.6.0-19.s390.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-19.s390.rpm
s390x: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.s390x.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.6.0-19.s390x.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-19.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.6.0-19.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-19.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Desktop version 3:
Source:
i386: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.6.0-19.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-19.i386.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.6.0-19.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-19.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3:
Source:
i386: gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-19.i386.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0269-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0269.html
Issue date: 2009-02-06

Topic

Updated gstreamer-plugins packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

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 important QuickTime gstreamer media format array indexing error

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

483740 - CVE-2009-0398 gstreamer-plugins: Array index error while parsing malformed QuickTime media files

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