RHEL 9 : gstreamer1-plugins-base (RHSA-2025:7243)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235804

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for gstreamer1-plugins-base.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7243 advisory.

GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-base packages contain a collection of well-maintained base plug-ins.

Security Fix(es):

* gstreamer1-plugins-base: ID3v2 parser out-of-bounds read and NULL-pointer dereference (CVE-2024-47542)

* gstreamer1-plugins-base: GStreamer has an out-of-bounds write in SSA subtitle parser (CVE-2024-47541)

* gstreamer1-plugins-base: GStreamer has an OOB-read in format_channel_mask (CVE-2024-47600)

* gstreamer1-plugins-base: NULL-pointer dereference in LRC subtitle parser (CVE-2024-47835)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL gstreamer1-plugins-base package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7243.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235804

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7243.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2025

Updated: 5/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47600

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47541

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47541, CVE-2024-47542, CVE-2024-47600, CVE-2024-47835

CWE: 125, 476, 787

RHSA: 2025:7243

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