CVE-2009-0586

Summary

CVECVE-2009-0586
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-03-14 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 02:19:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the gst_vorbis_tag_add_coverart function (gst-libs/gst/tag/gstvorbistag.c) in vorbistag in gst-plugins-base (aka gstreamer-plugins-base) before 0.10.23 in GStreamer allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted COVERART tag that is converted from a base64 representation, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.10 All All All
Application Gstreamer Gst-plugins-base All All All All
Application Gstreamer Project Gstreamer All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:009 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
488208 – (CVE-2009-0586) CVE-2009-0586 gstreamer-plugins-base: integer overflow in gst_vorbis_tag_add_coverart() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
oCERT archive MISC www.ocert.org
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
GNOME glib Base64 Encoding and Decoding Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
gstreamer/gst-plugins-base - 'Base' GStreamer plugins and helper libraries (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base) CONFIRM cgit.freedesktop.org
Ubuntu update for gst-plugins-base0.10 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
ocert.org/patches/2008-015/gst-plugins-base-CVE-2009-0586.diff MISC ocert.org Patch
oss-security - [oCERT-2008-015] glib and glib-predecessor heap overflows MLIST openwall.com Patch
GStreamer "gst_vorbis_tag_add_coverart()" Integer Overflow Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
USN-735-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- GStreamer plug-ins: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Gentoo update for gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-base, and gst-plugins-libpng - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com | CVE-2009-0586 MISC access.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:085 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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