CVE-2016-9807

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The flx_decode_chunks function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and crash) via a crafted FLIC file.

Affected products

GStreamer: through 1.10.1

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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/01/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95148
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774859
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/commit/?id=153a8ae752c90d07190ef45803422a4f71ea8bff
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.2
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2975.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0019.html

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