CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9446
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-665
Description
The vmnc decoder in the gstreamer does not initialize the render canvas, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas.
Affected configurations
• gstreamer gstreamer (< 1.11.1)
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.7
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.7
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.7
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• fedoraproject fedora 35
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/13 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94423 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533 bugzilla.gnome.org
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe cgit.freedesktop.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UM7IXFGHV66KNWGWG6ZBDNKXD2UJL2VQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/13 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94423 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533 bugzilla.gnome.org
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe cgit.freedesktop.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UM7IXFGHV66KNWGWG6ZBDNKXD2UJL2VQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10 security.gentoo.org