Headline
CVE-2021-3498
GStreamer before 1.18.4 might cause heap corruption when parsing certain malformed Matroska files.
Security Advisory 2021-0003 (CVE-2021-3498)
Summary
Heap corruption in matroska demuxing
Date
2021-03-15 16:00
Affected Versions
GStreamer gst-plugins-good 1.x <= 1.18.3
ID
GStreamer-SA-2021-0003
CVE-2021-3498
Details
GStreamer before 1.18.4 might cause heap corruption when parsing certain malformed Matroska files.
Impact
It might be possible for a malicious third party to trigger a crash in the application, but possibly also an arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the target user.
Threat mitigation****Workarounds****Solution
The gst-plugins-good 1.18.4 release addresses the issue. People using older branches of GStreamer should apply the patch and recompile.
References****The GStreamer project****CVE Database Entries****GStreamer 1.18.4 release****Patches
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