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Ubuntu 20.10: USN-4959-1 Moderate Risk GStreamer Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4959-1 tackles a vulnerability in GStreamer Base Plugins which may lead to the unintended disclosure of confidential data.
GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted input.

Summary

GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to expose sensitive information if it received

a specially crafted input.

Software Description:

- gst-plugins-base1.0: GStreamer plugins

Details:

It was discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins incorrectly handled certain inputs.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate moderate severity information exposure ubuntu input handling gstreamer plugin update

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.10:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.18.0-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.16.2-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.3

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4959-1

CVE-2021-3522

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

May 18, 2021

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate moderate severity information exposure ubuntu input handling gstreamer plugin update

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-base1.0/1.18.0-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-base1.0/1.16.2-4ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-base1.0/1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.3

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