USN-3244-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities
USN-3244-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3244-1 27th March, 2017 gst-plugins-base0.10, gst-plugins-base1.0 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description gst-plugins-base0.10 – GStreamer Plugins gst-plugins-base1.0 – GStreamer Plugins Details Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handlecertain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening acrafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause adenial of service via application crash. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.8.3-1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.2.4-1~ubuntu2.1 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.36-1.1ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.36-1ubuntu0.2 To [ more… ]