CVE-2016-9446

NameCVE-2016-9446
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-712-1, DSA-3717-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
gst-plugins-bad1.0 (PTS)buster1.14.4-1+deb10u2fixed
buster (security)1.14.4-1+deb10u5fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye1.18.4-3+deb11u4fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)1.22.0-4+deb12u5fixed
trixie1.22.10-1fixed
sid1.24.1-4fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gst-plugins-bad0.10sourcewheezy0.10.23-7.1+deb7u3DLA-712-1
gst-plugins-bad0.10sourcejessie0.10.23-7.4+deb8u2DSA-3717-1
gst-plugins-bad0.10source(unstable)(unfixed)
gst-plugins-bad1.0sourcejessie1.4.4-2.1+deb8u1DSA-3717-1
gst-plugins-bad1.0source(unstable)1.10.1-1

Notes

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

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