CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-3498

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-04-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2021-04-19
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-119, CWE-787

Description

GStreamer before 1.18.4 might cause heap corruption when parsing certain malformed Matroska files.

Affected configurations

• gstreamer gstreamer (>= 1.0.0 < 1.18.4) • debian debian linux 10.0 • redhat enterprise linux 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162952/Gstreamer-Matroska-Demuxing-Use-After-Free.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945342 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2021-0003.html Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-31 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4900 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162952/Gstreamer-Matroska-Demuxing-Use-After-Free.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945342 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2021-0003.html Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-31 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4900 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory