AlmaLinux 9 : gstreamer1-plugins-base (ALSA-2025:7243)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 241259

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:7243 advisory.

* 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 affected gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel and / or gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-7243.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7243

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 241259

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-7243.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2025

Updated: 7/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

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: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:gstreamer1-plugins-base

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/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