UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5838

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5838

    Published: 9 Feb 2017Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-5838
    Aliases:
    USN-6291-1

    Summary:

    Details: The gst_date_time_new_from_iso8601_string function in gst/gstdatetime.c in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a malformed datetime string.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5838, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/7, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6291-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5838

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gstreamer0.10

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/gstreamer0.10?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High