USN-7174-1: GStreamer vulnerability

USN-7174-1: GStreamer vulnerability
18 December 2024

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

Releases

• Ubuntu 24.10
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages
gstreamer1.0 - GStreamer is a streaming media framework

Details
Antonio Morales discovered that GStreamer incorrectly handled allocating
memory for certain buffers. An attacker could use this issue to cause
GStreamer to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.10

• libgstreamer1.0-0 - 1.24.8-1ubuntu0.1
  Ubuntu 24.04
• libgstreamer1.0-0 - 1.24.2-1ubuntu0.1
  Ubuntu 22.04
• libgstreamer1.0-0 - 1.20.3-0ubuntu1.1
  Ubuntu 20.04
• libgstreamer1.0-0 - 1.16.3-0ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.