CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5839

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Feb 09, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gstreamer Gstreamer_project * 1.10.2 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat clutter-gst2-0:2.0.18-1.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gnome-video-effects-0:0.4.3-1.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gstreamer1-0:1.10.4-2.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.10.4-2.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.10.4-1.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gstreamer1-plugins-good-0:1.10.4-2.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.23-23.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gstreamer-plugins-good-0:0.10.31-13.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat orc-0:0.4.26-1.el7 *
Gst-plugins-base0.10 Ubuntu upstream *
Gst-plugins-base1.0 Ubuntu trusty *
Gst-plugins-base1.0 Ubuntu upstream *
Gst-plugins-base1.0 Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Gst-plugins-base1.0 Ubuntu xenial *
Gst-plugins-base1.0 Ubuntu yakkety *

Potential Mitigations

References