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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2016:2974-01 Important: GStreamer Security

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2016
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Ubuntu released an important patch for libjpeg-turbo to address critical security flaws in its OS.
An update for gstreamer-plugins-bad-free is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.
Security Fix(es):
* An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in GStreamer's VMware VMnc video file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-9445)
* A memory corruption flaw was found in GStreamer's Nintendo NSF music file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-9447)
Note: This updates removes the vulnerable Nintendo NSF plug-in.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux important GStreamer media framework

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9445 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9447 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-5.el6_8.src.rpm
i386: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs-0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-5.el6_8.src.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2974-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2974.html
Issue date: 2016-12-21

Topic

An update for gstreamer-plugins-bad-free is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux important GStreamer media framework

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1395126 - CVE-2016-9447 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Memory corruption flaw in NSF decoder

1395767 - CVE-2016-9445 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Integer overflow when allocating render buffer in VMnc decoder

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