Incorrect Access Control in GStreamer RTSP server 1.25.0 in gst-rtsp-server/rtsp-media.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of specially crafted hexstream requests.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202506-02 (GStreamer, GStreamer Plugins: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GStreamer, GStreamer Plugins. Please review the CVE     identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Incorrect Access Control in GStreamer RTSP server 1.25.0 in gst-rtsp-server/rtsp-media.c allows remote
    attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of specially crafted hexstream requests.
    (CVE-2024-44331)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Incorrect Access Control in GStreamer RTSP server 1.25.0 in gst-rtsp-server/rtsp-media.c allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of specially crafted hexstream requests.
    (CVE-2024-44331)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the d48a2224-9b4c-11ef-bdd9-4ccc6adda413 advisory.

    Qingpeng Du reports:
    A series of specially crafted client requests during streaming setup                (post client authentication, if any) can cause the RTSP server library                to abort, if it has been compiled with assertions enabled.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
240464	GLSA-202506-02 : GStreamer, GStreamer Plugins: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
427784	Alpine: multiple gst-rtsp-server packages: security update to 1.24.9-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
427784	Alpine: multiple gst-rtsp-server packages: security update to 1.24.9-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
229219	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-44331	Nessus	Misc.	high
210600	FreeBSD : gstreamer1-rtsp-server -- Potential Denial-of-Service (DoS) with specially crafted client requests (d48a2224-9b4c-11ef-bdd9-4ccc6adda413)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2024-44331

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Tenable Plugins

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