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Ubuntu 8.10 USN-735-1 Critical: GStreamer Base Code Execution

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Important patch released for Ubuntu targeting a GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability that may allow unauthorized remote code execution through potentially harmful files.
It was discovered that the Base64 decoding functions in GStreamer Base Plugins did not properly handle large images in Vorbis file tags

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security advisory code execution Ubuntu critical update arbitrary code GStreamer plugin update

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gst-plugins-base0.10 vulnerability

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security advisory code execution Ubuntu critical update arbitrary code GStreamer plugin update

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