Gst-plugins-bad: gst-plugins-bad: missing bounds checks in mpeg ps pes header parsing
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- No fix listed
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
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- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 21/100 · provisional
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
Opening a specially crafted MPEG Program Stream file in affected GStreamer gst-plugins-bad software can crash the application, causing a denial of service. An attacker must get a local user to open the malicious file, since the flaw is reached locally without logging in.
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Read the original description
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-bad MPEG Program Stream demuxer and resindvd DVD-playback plugin. The PES header parsers do not adequately check remaining data before reading timestamps and optional header fields. Opening a specially crafted MPEG Program Stream file can cause an out-of-bounds read and potentially crash the application, resulting in a denial of service.
cve.now Index
- Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
- Exposure?/25Unknown. No advisory context yet
- Reach10/20Shipped in major Linux distributions
- Severity5.5/10CVSS 5.5
- No patch5/5No patch listed yet
What would change the score
- Would score about 76 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 71 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 43 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed
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Timeline
- CVE published
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- Record last updated
Affected versions
- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
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- gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
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- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
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- gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
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- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
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- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free
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Evidence 6
CVE record · 2
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Write-ups · 1
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Corrections
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