Bug 1397063 – CVE-2016-9446 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Missing initialization of allocated heap memory leads to information leak

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Bug 1397063 - (CVE-2016-9446) CVE-2016-9446 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Missing initialization of allocated heap memory leads to information leak

Summary:	CVE-2016-9446 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Missing initialization of allocated...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9446

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1397066 1397067 1397068 1397064 1397065
Blocks:	1397072 1415638
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Reported:	2016-11-21 09:12 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-08-02 06:14 EDT (History)
CC List:	19 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-11-25 01:14:46 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:2060	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: GStreamer security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2017-08-01 15:34:49 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 09:12:47 EST

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 09:16:13 EST

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 09:16:31 EST

Created gstreamer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397064]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 09:16:45 EST

Created mingw-gstreamer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397066]

Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2016-11-21 09:16:58 EST

Created gstreamer1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397065]

Comment 5 Dhiru Kholia 2016-11-24 03:57:58 EST

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 18:27:49 EDT

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

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