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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5843: gst-plugins-bad1 Multiple issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5843: gst-plugins-bad1 Multiple issues

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) gst_mini_object_unref, (2) gst_tag_list_unref, and (3) gst_mxf_demux_update_essence_tracks functions in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving stream tags, as demonstrated by 02785736.mxf.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-gst-plugins-bad1

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