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CentOS 4 : gstreamer-plugins (CESA-2011:0477)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 53642
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated gstreamer-plugins packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
The gstreamer-plugins packages contain plug-ins used by the GStreamer streaming-media framework to support a wide variety of media formats.
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, and a stack-based buffer overflow flaw were found in various ModPlug music file format library (libmodplug) modules, embedded in GStreamer. An attacker could create specially crafted music files that, when played by a victim, would cause applications using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2006-4192, CVE-2011-1574)
All users of gstreamer-plugins are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
After installing the update, all applications using GStreamer (such as Rhythmbox) must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Solution
Update the affected gstreamer-plugins packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 53642
File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-0477.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 5/5/2011
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer-plugins, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer-plugins-devel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2006
Exploitable With
CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)
Core Impact
Metasploit (VideoLAN VLC ModPlug ReadS3M Stack Buffer Overflow)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2006-4192, CVE-2011-1574
RHSA: 2011:0477