vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5839: Uncontrolled Recursion

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 9, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-gst-plugins-base1
Title
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