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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerabilities (USN-4928-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149055

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 20.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4928-1 advisory.

 - GStreamer before 1.18.4 might access already-freed memory in error code paths when demuxing certain malformed Matroska files. (CVE-2021-3497)

 - GStreamer before 1.18.4 might cause heap corruption when parsing certain malformed Matroska files.
 (CVE-2021-3498)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4928-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149055

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4928-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2021

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3498

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer1.0-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gstreamer1.0-qt5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3497, CVE-2021-3498

USN: 4928-1