CVE-2017-5839

Published 09 Feb 2017 · Updated 05 Aug 2024

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 4.5%

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777265 https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3819 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96001