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Pardus: Gst-plugins-good: Multiple Integer
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2009-91 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2009-06-24
Severity: 3
Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been discovered in GStreamer Good Plug-ins, which
can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an
application using the library.
Description
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The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in
ext/libpng/gstpngdec.c, which can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow via a specially crafted PNG file.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Affected packages:
Pardus 2008:
gst-plugins-good, all before 0.10.11-16-9
Resolution
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There are update(s) for gst-plugins-good. You can update them via
Package Manager or with a single command from console:
pisi up gst-plugins-good
References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id™86
* http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer...44bcc44adcef769cbdf7f6453e140058a3adc
* http://secunia.com/advisories/35205