USN-3958-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability gst-plugins-base0.10, gst-plugins-base1.0 vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software Description gst-plugins-base1.0 – GStreamer plugins gst-plugins-base0.10 – GStreamer plugins Details It was discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle certain malformed RTSP streams. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted RTSP stream with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base – 1.14.4-1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS gstreamer1.0-plugins-base – 1.14.1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS gstreamer0.10-plugins-base – 0.10.36-2ubuntu0.2 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base – 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3 To [ more… ]