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usn-3245-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-03-27 17:16
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
gst-plugins-good0.10, gst-plugins-good1.0 vulnerabilities
Details

Hanno Böck 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.

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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Hanno B\u00f6ck discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle\ncertain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a\ncrafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a\ndenial of service via application crash.\n",
  "id": "USN-3245-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:34Z",
  "published": "2017-03-27T17:16:24Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3245-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10198"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10199"
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      "type": "REPORT",
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    {
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    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "gst-plugins-good0.10, gst-plugins-good1.0 vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10198",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10199",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5840",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5841",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5845"
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}



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