Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-17072

high Nessus Plugin ID 330400

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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

- A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-good. A heap-based out-of-bounds read of 4 bytes can occur when parsing FLAC audio stream headers embedded in a Matroska or WebM container file. The vulnerability is triggered by a boundary check that does not account for the full size of the data being copied, allowing a small read past the end of the allocated buffer. An attacker could exploit this by crafting a malicious Matroska or WebM file and tricking a user into opening it, potentially leaking a small amount of adjacent heap memory. (CVE-2026-17072)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 330400

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_17072.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/28/2026

Updated: 7/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-17072

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer-plugins-good-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer-plugins-good, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer1-plugins-good, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-good-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer-plugins-good, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-good

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-17072

Detections

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