CVE-2016-9808

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

The FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) via a crafted series of skip and count pairs.

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/95446
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.2
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/11/0day-poc-incorrect-fix-for-gstreamer.html
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
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0020.html

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