CVE-2009-0586

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-0586
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-03-14 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-190 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.10 All All All
Application Gstreamer Gstreamer All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo update for gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-base, and gst-plugins-libpng - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:085 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Broken Link
ocert.org/patches/2008-015/gst-plugins-base-CVE-2009-0586.diff af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ocert.org Patch
USN-735-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oCERT archive af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ocert.org Third Party Advisory
GNOME glib Base64 Encoding and Decoding Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - [oCERT-2008-015] glib and glib-predecessor heap overflows af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Ubuntu update for gst-plugins-base0.10 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- GStreamer plug-ins: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
gstreamer/gst-plugins-base - 'Base' GStreamer plugins and helper libraries (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cgit.freedesktop.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:009 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
GStreamer "gst_vorbis_tag_add_coverart()" Integer Overflow Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Not Applicable
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2009-0586 MITRE access.redhat.com
488208 – (CVE-2009-0586) CVE-2009-0586 gstreamer-plugins-base: integer overflow in gst_vorbis_tag_add_coverart() MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
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