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ubuntu-cve-2016-9446

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2017-01-23 21:59

Modified

2026-04-22 07:38

Summary

Details

The vmnc decoder in the gstreamer does not initialize the render canvas, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9446	REPORT
	http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0da…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9446	REPORT

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CVE-2016-9446 (GCVE-0-2016-9446)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:50

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

microfocus

References

9 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/1…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94423	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugin…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/1…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0d…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Date Public

2016-11-16 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2016-9446 (GCVE-0-2016-9446)

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