CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-3497

Use After Free

Published: Apr 19, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.8 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

GStreamer before 1.18.4 might access already-freed memory in error code paths when demuxing certain malformed Matroska files.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gstreamer Gstreamer_project 0.10.0 (including) 1.18.4 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat gstreamer1-plugins-good-0:1.16.1-3.el8 *
Gst-plugins-good1.0 Ubuntu bionic *
Gst-plugins-good1.0 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Gst-plugins-good1.0 Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Gst-plugins-good1.0 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Gst-plugins-good1.0 Ubuntu focal *
Gst-plugins-good1.0 Ubuntu groovy *
Gst-plugins-good1.0 Ubuntu trusty *
Gst-plugins-good1.0 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References