Ubuntu 24.04 LTS USN-6798-1 Moderate: GStreamer Plugin Crash Risk

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May 29, 2024

GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- gst-plugins-base1.0: GStreamer plugins

Details:

It was discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins incorrectly handled certain

EXIF metadata. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary

code or cause a crash.

Topics Covered

security advisory ubuntu program execution gstreamer plugin crash

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.24.2-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 23.10
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.22.6-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.20.1-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.16.3-0ubuntu1.3

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