Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been discovered in GStreamer Good Plug-ins, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
GStreamer Good Plug-ins PNG Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35205
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35205/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in GStreamer Good Plug-ins, which
can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an
application using the library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in
ext/libpng/gstpngdec.c, which can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow via a specially crafted PNG file.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.10.15. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the git repository.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/commit/?id=d9544bcc44adcef769cbdf7f6453e140058a3adc
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tielei Wang
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/commit/?id=d9544bcc44adcef769cbdf7f6453e140058a3adc
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