USN-736-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10

Packages

• gst-plugins-good0.10 -

Details

It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle
malformed Composition Time To Sample (ctts) atom data in Quicktime (mov)
movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted mov file, an
attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking the program. (CVE-2009-0386)

It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle
malformed Sync Sample (aka stss) atom data in Quicktime (mov) movie files.
If a user were tricked into opening a crafted mov file, an attacker could
cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2009-0387)

It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle
malformed Time-to-sample (aka stts) atom data in Quicktime (mov) movie
files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted mov file, an attacker
could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2009-0397)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.10

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.10.4-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.7-3ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 7.10

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.6-0ubuntu4.2

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-0397
• CVE-2009-0386
• CVE-2009-0387