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CVE-2016-9634

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flx_decode_delta_fli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via the start_line parameter.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• GStreamer: through 1.10.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2975.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0019.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0020.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3723
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3724
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/24/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94499
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774834
• https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.2
• https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/11/0day-exploit-advancing-exploitation.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2975.html

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