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[USN-3245-1] GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerabilities

Posted on 27 March 2017
Ubuntu Security

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3245-1
March 27, 2017

gst-plugins-good0.10, gst-plugins-good1.0 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

GStreamer Good Plugins could be made to crash if it opened a specially
crafted file.

Software Description:
- gst-plugins-good1.0: GStreamer plugins
- gst-plugins-good0.10: GStreamer plugins

Details:

Hanno B=C3=B6ck discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly =
handle
certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause =
a
denial of service via application crash.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 16.10:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.8.3-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5.3
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.2.4-1~ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.31-1ubuntu1.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.=


References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3245-1
CVE-2016-10198, CVE-2016-10199, CVE-2017-5840, CVE-2017-5841,
CVE-2017-5845

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-good1.0/1.8.3-1ubuntu1=
=2E3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-good1.0/1.8.3-1ubuntu0=
=2E4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-good0.10/0.10.31-3+nmu=
1ubuntu5.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-good1.0/1.2.4-1~ubuntu=
1.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-good0.10/0.10.31-1ubun=
tu1.5



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