CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5839
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674
Description
The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.
Affected configurations
• gstreamer gstreamer (<= 1.10.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3819 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96001 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777265 Issue Tracking
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3819 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96001 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777265 Issue Tracking
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10 security.gentoo.org