RHEL 7 : gstreamer-plugins-bad-free (RHSA-2024:0279)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189132

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gstreamer-plugins-bad-free.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0279 advisory.

GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.

Security Fix(es):

* gstreamer: MXF demuxer use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2023-44446)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL gstreamer-plugins-bad-free package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0279.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189132

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0279.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/17/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44446

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44446

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2024:0279

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