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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2017:0019-01 Moderate GStreamer RCE Alert

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2017
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Red Hat has issued a notice concerning a notable gstreamer-plugins-good upgrade that resolves several security vulnerabilities. Discover additional information.
An update for gstreamer-plugins-good is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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-good packages contain a collection of well-supported plug-ins of good quality and under the LGPL license.
Security Fix(es):
* Multiple flaws were discovered in GStreamer's FLC/FLI/FLX media file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use these flaws to cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-9634, CVE-2016-9635, CVE-2016-9636, CVE-2016-9808)
* An invalid memory read access flaw was found in GStreamer's FLC/FLI/FLX media file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash. (CVE-2016-9807)
Note: This update removes the vulnerable FLC/FLI/FLX plug-in.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update red hat remote code execution media framework gstreamer

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9634 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9635 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9636 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9807 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9808 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.src.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.31-12.el7_3.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.31-12.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-docs-0.10.31-12.el7_3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.src.rpm
x86_64: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.x86_64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.31-12.el7_3.i686.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.31-12.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-docs-0.10.31-12.el7_3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.src.rpm
aarch64: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.aarch64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.31-12.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.ppc.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-12.el7_3.ppc64.rpm gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0.10.31-12.el7_3.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0019-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0019.html
Issue date: 2017-01-05

Topic

An update for gstreamer-plugins-good is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update red hat remote code execution media framework gstreamer

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1397441 - CVE-2016-9634 CVE-2016-9635 CVE-2016-9636 CVE-2016-9808 gstreamer-plugins-good: Heap buffer overflow in FLIC decoder

1401874 - CVE-2016-9807 gstreamer-plugins-good: Invalid memory read in flx_decode_chunks

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