Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : gst-plugins-good0.10 vulnerability (USN-789-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39491

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Tielei Wang discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle malformed PNG image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted PNG image file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/789-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39491

File Name: ubuntu_USN-789-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-esd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1932

CWE: 189

USN: 789-1