CVE-2009-0397

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-02-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the qtdemux_parse_samples function in gst/qtdemux/qtdemux.c in GStreamer Good Plug-ins (aka gst-plugins-good) 0.10.9 through 0.10.11, and GStreamer Plug-ins (aka gstreamer-plugins) 0.8.5, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted Time-to-sample (aka stts) atom data in a malformed QuickTime media .mov file.

Affected products

GStreamer Good Plug-Ins: 0.10.9, 0.10.10, 0.10.11
GStreamer Plug-Ins: 0.8.5

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/commit/?id=bdc20b9baf13564d9a061343416395f8f9a92b53
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-plugins-good/0.10.12.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33650
http://secunia.com/advisories/33815
http://secunia.com/advisories/33830
http://secunia.com/advisories/34336
http://secunia.com/advisories/35777
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-11.xml
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-052.htm
http://trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2009-003.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:035

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