CVE-2024-47540 — Use of Uninitialized Variable in Gstreamer

CWE-457 — Use of Uninitialized VariableCWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource5 documents5 sources
Severity
8.6HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
GstreamerDebian Gst-plugins-good1.0
Timeline
PublishedDec 12
Latest updateDec 18

Description

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. An uninitialized stack variable vulnerability has been identified in the gst_matroska_demux_add_wvpk_header function within matroska-demux.c. When size allocator->mem_unmap_full or mem->allocator->mem_unmap. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to hijack the execution flow, potentially leading to code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDgstreamer/gstreamer< 1.24.10
▶debiandebian/gst-plugins-good1.0< gst-plugins-good1.0 1.22.0-5+deb12u2 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: gitlab.freedesktop.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
OSV
CVE-2024-47540: GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components↗2024-12-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerabilities↗2024-12-18
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Red Hat
gstreamer1-plugins-good: uninitialized stack memory in Matroska/WebM demuxer↗2024-12-11
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Debian
CVE-2024-47540: gst-plugins-good1.0 - GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. An ...↗2024
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