| Name | CVE-2016-9446 |
| Description | The vmnc decoder in the gstreamer does not initialize the render canvas, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-712-1, DSA-3717-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| gst-plugins-bad1.0 (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.18.4-3+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 1.22.0-4+deb12u5 | fixed | |
| trixie | 1.24.8-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 1.24.9-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gst-plugins-bad0.10 | source | wheezy | 0.10.23-7.1+deb7u3 | DLA-712-1 | ||
| gst-plugins-bad0.10 | source | jessie | 0.10.23-7.4+deb8u2 | DSA-3717-1 | ||
| gst-plugins-bad0.10 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| gst-plugins-bad1.0 | source | jessie | 1.4.4-2.1+deb8u1 | DSA-3717-1 | ||
| gst-plugins-bad1.0 | source | (unstable) | 1.10.1-1 |
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html
Upstream Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533
Fixed by: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe