vulnerability
Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2016-9446)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Jan 23, 2017 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 23, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
An information disclosure vulnerability has been discovered in the render canvas functionality of gst-plugins-bad due to the lack of initializing the returned heap area of g_malloc(). An example for the information leak would be thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas at all.
This could be a problem for anyone using gstreamer in a server environment to provide a thumbnailing services.
This could be a problem for anyone using gstreamer in a server environment to provide a thumbnailing services.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
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