Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04 LTS USN-3245-1 Moderate: GStreamer Application Crash

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March 27, 2017

GStreamer Good Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

GStreamer Good Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially

crafted file.

Software Description:

- gst-plugins-good1.0: GStreamer plugins

- gst-plugins-good0.10: GStreamer plugins

Details:

Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle

certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a

crafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a

denial of service via application crash.

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service application crash ubuntu gst-plugins-good

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 16.10:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.8.3-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.8.3-1ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good      0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5.3
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.2.4-1~ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good      0.10.31-1ubuntu1.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.