CVE-2016-9447

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% 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-125

Description

The ROM mappings in the NSF decoder in gstreamer 0.10.x allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NSF music file.

Affected products

GStreamer: 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5 (+31)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2974.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0018.html
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-exploit-compromising-linux-desktop.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/94427
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
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-exploit-compromising-linux-desktop.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/13

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