CVE-2016-9809

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% 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

Off-by-one error in the gst_h264_parse_set_caps function in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

GStreamer: through 1.10.1

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0018.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0021.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3818
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/95147
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774896
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00038.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0018.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0021.html

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