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CVE-2019-9928

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

GStreamer before 1.16.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the RTSP connection parser via a crafted response from a server, potentially allowing remote code execution.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• GStreamer: before 1.16.0 — fixed in 1.16.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GStreamer 1.16.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00078.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00082.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00049.html
• https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/
• https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2019-0001.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00030.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00031.html
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/39
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-33
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3958-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4437
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00078.html

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