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Oracle Linux 4 : gstreamer-plugins (ELSA-2011-0477)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68266

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:0477 :

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

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-May/002112.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68266

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0477.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gstreamer-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gstreamer-plugins-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2011

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

BID: 19448, 47248

RHSA: 2011:0477