USN-7175-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities

18 December 2024

GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Antonio Morales discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins incorrectly handled
certain malformed media files. An attacker could use these issues to cause
GStreamer Base Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code.

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