Bug 1181404 (CVE-2014-8154) - CVE-2014-8154 Vala: Heap-buffer overflow in vala-gstreamer bindings at Gst.MapInfo()
Summary: CVE-2014-8154 Vala: Heap-buffer overflow in vala-gstreamer bindings at Gst.Ma...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-8154
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1177840
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-13 05:39 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-01-15 22:30:18 UTC
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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.
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