Bug 1181404 (CVE-2014-8154)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8154 Vala: Heap-buffer overflow in vala-gstreamer bindings at Gst.MapInfo()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	alexl, fabian.deutsch, jrusnack, michel, zeenix
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-01-13 05:39:36 UTC

Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff  reported a heap-based buffer overflow in Vala Gstreamer bindings in the Gst.MapInfo() function. Further details are available in the following Red Hat bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177840

This issue was also reported via: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678663 

and fixed in the following commit:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/commit/?id=3092537db65887e24a3d3e87a27caf9c5295e4f7

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-01-13 05:42:41 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of vala package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.