CVE-2016-9446

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.

References

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

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UM7IXFGHV66KNWGWG6ZBDNKXD2UJL2VQ/

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

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94423

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3