Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : gst-plugins-good0.10 vulnerabilities (USN-736-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 37956

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

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).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/736-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 37956

File Name: ubuntu_USN-736-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-esd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0386, CVE-2009-0387, CVE-2009-0397

BID: 33405

CWE: 119

USN: 736-1