Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-100231

medium Nessus Plugin ID 365731

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 the GStreamer multimedia framework's ASF muxer plugin (asfmux). When writing string metadata tags containing Unicode characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (such as emoji) to an ASF container, the plugin incorrectly calculates the buffer size needed for the UTF-16LE representation. The size calculation assumes each Unicode code point requires 2 bytes, but non-BMP characters require 4 bytes (surrogate pairs). This leads to a heap out-of-bounds write when the actual UTF-16LE conversion is written into the undersized buffer. An attacker could exploit this by providing media with crafted metadata tags to an application that transcodes or remuxes to ASF format while preserving metadata, potentially causing a denial of service or limited memory corruption. (CVE-2026-100231)

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: Medium

ID: 365731

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_100231.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/14/2026

Updated: 10/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.43

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-100231

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free

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: 10/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-100231

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