CVE-2017-5839 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Gst-plugins-base1.0

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion11 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.0%
top 13.32%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian Gst-plugins-base1.0Gstreamer
Timeline
PublishedFeb 9
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/gst-plugins-base1.0< gst-plugins-base1.0 1.10.3-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-cc95-pv6q-rgmh: The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-5839: The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media↗2017-02-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities↗2017-03-27
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Debian
CVE-2017-5839: gst-plugins-base1.0 - The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst...↗2017
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Red Hat
gstreamer-plugins-base: Stack overflow in gst_riff_create_audio_caps↗2016-01-15
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💬Community

5
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5837 CVE-2017-5839 CVE-2017-5842 CVE-2017-5844 mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-02-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5837 CVE-2017-5839 CVE-2017-5842 CVE-2017-5844 gstreamer1-plugins-base: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-02-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5839 gstreamer-plugins-base: Stack overflow in gst_riff_create_audio_caps↗2017-02-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5837 CVE-2017-5839 CVE-2017-5842 CVE-2017-5844 mingw-gstreamer-plugins-base: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-02-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5837 CVE-2017-5839 CVE-2017-5842 CVE-2017-5844 gstreamer-plugins-base: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-02-06
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