MGASA-2017-0320

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    MGASA-2017-0320

    Published: 29 Aug 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated gstreamer0.10-plugins-base and gstreamer1.0-plugins-base packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Denial of service in GStreamer base plugins can be caused by floating point exceptions (CVE-2017-5837, CVE-2017-5844), stack overflow (CVE-2017-5839), or out-of-bounds heap read (CVE-2017-5842). Note that GStreamer 0.10 was only affected by the floating point exceptions.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0320.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20236, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/9, https://lwn.net/Alerts/714996/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/gstreamer0.10-plugins-base?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.10.36-9.2.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
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