# CVE-2024-47545: GHSL-2024-242: GStreamer has an integer underflow in FOURCC\_strf parsing leading to OOB-read

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.24.10
- Published: 2024-12-11 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- gstreamer: fixed in 1.24.10

## Description

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. An integer underflow has been detected in qtdemux_parse_trak function within qtdemux.c. During the strf parsing case, the subtraction size -= 40 can lead to a negative integer overflow if it is less than 40. If this happens, the subsequent call to gst_buffer_fill will invoke memcpy with a large tocopy size, resulting in an OOB-read. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

## What to do

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## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-242_Gstreamer/
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/8059.patch
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2024-0010.html

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