CVE-2016-9445

Description

Integer overflow in the vmnc decoder in the gstreamer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large width and height values, which triggers a buffer overflow.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94421

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/13

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/12

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0021.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0018.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2974.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3