USN-3958-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability

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-base1.14.4-1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base1.14.1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.2
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base0.10.36-2ubuntu0.2
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

Source: USN-3958-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability

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