CVE-2021-3498

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3498
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-19 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-24 15:08:00 UTC
DescriptionGStreamer before 1.18.4 might cause heap corruption when parsing certain malformed Matroska files.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Gstreamer Project Gstreamer All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GStreamer, GStreamer Plugins: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-31) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Security Advisory 2021-0003 MISC gstreamer.freedesktop.org
Gstreamer Matroska Demuxing Use-After-Free ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4900-1 gst-plugins-good1.0 DEBIAN www.debian.org
1945342 – (CVE-2021-3498) CVE-2021-3498 gstreamer-plugins-good: Heap corruption in matroska demuxing MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178564 Debian Security Update for gst-plugins-good1.0 (DSA 4900-1)
  • 180489 Debian Security Update for gst-plugins-good1.0 (CVE-2021-3498)
  • 198347 Ubuntu Security Notification for GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerabilities (USN-4928-1)
  • 296065 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 39.107.1 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 501418 Alpine Linux Security Update for gstreamer
  • 501579 Alpine Linux Security Update for gst-plugins-good
  • 503987 Alpine Linux Security Update for gstreamer
  • 710603 Gentoo Linux GStreamer, GStreamer Plugins Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-31)
  • 751090 OpenSUSE Security Update for gstreamer-plugins-good (openSUSE-SU-2021:1230-1)
  • 751101 OpenSUSE Security Update for gstreamer-plugins-good (openSUSE-SU-2021:2915-1)
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