Bug 1397063 (CVE-2016-9446)

Summary: CVE-2016-9446 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Missing initialization of allocated heap memory leads to information leak
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bdpepple, bmcclain, dblechte, dkholia, dmoppert, eedri, erik-fedora, jgrulich, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, otte, sherold, slawomir, tuxator, uraeus, victortoso, wtaymans, ykaul, ylavi
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Bug Depends On: 1397064, 1397065, 1397066, 1397067, 1397068    
Bug Blocks: 1397072, 1415638    

Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 14:12:47 UTC 
A missing initialization of allocated heap memory for render canvas leads to information leak.

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/462

External References:

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.sk/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 14:16:13 UTC 
Created mingw-gstreamer1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397067]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1397068]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 14:16:31 UTC 
Created gstreamer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397064]
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 14:16:45 UTC 
Created mingw-gstreamer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397066]
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 14:16:58 UTC 
Created gstreamer1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397065]
Comment 5 Dhiru Kholia 2016-11-24 08:57:58 UTC 
Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 22:27:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2060 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060