RHEL 6 : gstreamer-plugins-bad-free (RHSA-2016:2974)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96039

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for gstreamer-plugins-bad-free is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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) :

* An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in GStreamer's VMware VMnc video file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-9445)

* A memory corruption flaw was found in GStreamer's Nintendo NSF music file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-9447)

Note: This updates removes the vulnerable Nintendo NSF plug-in.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96039

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-2974.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/21/2016

Updated: 10/24/2019

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs

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: 12/21/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9445, CVE-2016-9447

RHSA: 2016:2974

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