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Red Hat: CVE-2022-1925: Potential heap overwrite in mkv demuxing using HEADERSTRIP decompression (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-1925: Potential heap overwrite in mkv demuxing using HEADERSTRIP decompression (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/19/2022
Created
05/15/2023
Added
05/15/2023
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

DOS / potential heap overwrite in mkv demuxing using HEADERSTRIP decompression. Integer overflow in matroskaparse element in gst_matroska_decompress_data function which causes a heap overflow. Due to restrictions on chunk sizes in the matroskademux element, the overflow can't be triggered, however the matroskaparse element has no size checks.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-gstreamer1-plugins-good-qt-debuginfo

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