CVE-2016-9445

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the vmnc decoder in the gstreamer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large width and height values, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

GStreamer: 1.10.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2974.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0018.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0021.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/13
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94421
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2974.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0018.html

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