# CVE-2024-47835: GHSL-2024-263: Gstreamer NULL-pointer dereference in LRC subtitle parser

- 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 detected in the parse_lrc function within gstsubparse.c. The parse_lrc function calls strchr() to find the character ']' in the string line. The pointer returned by this call is then passed to g_strdup(). However, if the string line does not contain the character ']', strchr() returns NULL, and a call to g_strdup(start + 1) leads to a null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

## What to do

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## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-263_Gstreamer/
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/8039.patch
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2024-0029.html

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