CVE-2021-3498

NameCVE-2021-3498
DescriptionGStreamer before 1.18.4 might cause heap corruption when parsing certain malformed Matroska files.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4900-1
Debian Bugs986911

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
gst-plugins-good1.0 (PTS)buster1.14.4-1+deb10u1fixed
buster (security)1.14.4-1+deb10u3fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye1.18.4-2+deb11u2fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)1.22.0-5+deb12u1fixed
trixie1.22.10-1fixed
sid1.24.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gst-plugins-good1.0sourceexperimental1.18.4-1
gst-plugins-good1.0sourcestretch(not affected)
gst-plugins-good1.0sourcebuster1.14.4-1+deb10u1DSA-4900-1
gst-plugins-good1.0source(unstable)1.18.4-2986911

Notes

[stretch] - gst-plugins-good1.0 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2021-0003.html
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/-/commit/02174790726dd20a5c73ce2002189bf240ad4fe0
Introduced by: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/-/commit/f279bc5336dda19741a5996a108da42dd3201366

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