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CVE-2024-47543: GHSL-2024-236: GStreamer has an OOB-read in qtdemux_parse_container

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. An OOB-read vulnerability has been discovered in qtdemux_parse_container function within qtdemux.c. In the parent function qtdemux_parse_node, the value of length is not well checked. So, if length is big enough, it causes the pointer end to point beyond the boundaries of buffer. Subsequently, in the qtdemux_parse_container function, the while loop can trigger an OOB-read, accessing memory beyond the bounds of buf. This vulnerability can result in reading up to 4GB of process memory or potentially causing a segmentation fault (SEGV) when accessing invalid memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

Affected products

• GStreamer: before 1.24.10 — fixed in 1.24.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GStreamer 1.24.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/8059.patch
• https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2024-0009.html
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-236_Gstreamer/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00035.html

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