Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability (USN-3135-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95285

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

Chris Evans discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle malformed FLC movie files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted FLC movie file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3135-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95285

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3135-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/23/2016

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer0.10-gconf

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2016

Reference Information

USN: 3135-1