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Red Hat 4: RHSA-2011:0477-01 Important: Gstreamer Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2011
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Red Hat released a critical security patch for gstreamer-plugins addressing vulnerabilities related to integer and buffer overflows.
Updated gstreamer-plugins packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Summary

The gstreamer-plugins packages contain plug-ins used by the GStreamer streaming-media framework to support a wide variety of media formats.
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, and a stack-based buffer overflow flaw were found in various ModPlug music file format library (libmodplug) modules, embedded in GStreamer. An attacker could create specially-crafted music files that, when played by a victim, would cause applications using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2006-4192, CVE-2011-1574)
All users of gstreamer-plugins 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 Rhythmbox) must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux important integer overflow gstreamer

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-4192 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1574 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.EL.3.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.5-1.EL.3.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.EL.3.i386.rpm
ia64: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.EL.3.ia64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.5-1.EL.3.ia64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.EL.3.ia64.rpm
ppc: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.EL.3.ppc.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.5-1.EL.3.ppc.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.EL.3.ppc.rpm
s390: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.EL.3.s390.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.5-1.EL.3.s390.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.EL.3.s390.rpm
s390x: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.EL.3.s390x.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.5-1.EL.3.s390x.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.EL.3.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.EL.3.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.5-1.EL.3.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.EL.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:
Source:
i386: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.EL.3.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.5-1.EL.3.i386.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.EL.3.i386.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.EL.3.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.5-1.EL.3.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.EL.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2011:0477-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0477.html
Issue date: 2011-05-02

Topic

Updated gstreamer-plugins packages that fix two security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eachvulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux important integer overflow gstreamer

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

497154 - CVE-2006-4192 libmodplug: Integer overflow when reading samples of AMF files

695420 - CVE-2011-1574 libmodplug: ReadS3M stack overflow vulnerability

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