CVE-2017-5839

HIGH

GStreamer < 1.10.2 - Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursion in WAVEFORMATEX Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96001
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3819
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/9
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777265
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/7

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0448
EPSS Percentile 90.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (2)
gstreamer/gstreamer < 1.10.2
gstreamer_project/gstreamer < 1.10.2
Published Feb 09, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026