RHEL 10 : gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free (RHSA-2026:99118)

high Nessus Plugin ID 379362

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:99118 advisory.

GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.

Security Fix(es):

* gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: stack buffer overflow in H.266/VVC parser (CVE-2026-119777)

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.

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

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 RHEL gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:99118.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99118

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2564164

http://www.nessus.org/u?c5e70d70

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 379362

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-99118.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2026

Updated: 11/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.59

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-119777

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel, 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/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-119777

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2026:99118