# CVE-2024-47599: GHSL-2024-247: GStreamer Insufficient error handling in JPEG decoder that can lead to NULL-pointer dereferences

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/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. A null pointer dereference vulnerability has been discovered in the gst_jpeg_dec_negotiate function in gstjpegdec.c. This function does not check for a NULL return value from gst_video_decoder_set_output_state. When this happens, dereferences of the outstate pointer will lead to a null pointer dereference. This vulnerability can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) by triggering a segmentation fault (SEGV). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gstreamer, upgrade to a fixed version (1.24.10) per the references below.
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## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-247_Gstreamer/
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/8040.patch
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2024-0016.html

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