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USN-3958-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability

29 April 2019

GStreamer Base Plugins could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Packages

Details

It was discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle
certain malformed RTSP streams. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted RTSP stream with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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