USN-3958-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• gst-plugins-base0.10 - GStreamer plugins
• gst-plugins-base1.0 - GStreamer plugins

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10

• gstreamer1.0-plugins-base - 1.14.4-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• gstreamer1.0-plugins-base - 1.14.1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-base - 0.10.36-2ubuntu0.2
• gstreamer1.0-plugins-base - 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3

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

References

• CVE-2019-9928