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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7174-1
December 18, 2024

gstreamer1.0 vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 24.10
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Summary:

GStreamer could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened
a specially crafted file.

Software Description:
- gstreamer1.0: GStreamer is a streaming media framework

Details:

Antonio Morales discovered that GStreamer incorrectly handled allocating
memory for certain buffers. An attacker could use this issue to cause
GStreamer to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 24.10
  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.24.8-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.24.2-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.20.3-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.16.3-0ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7174-1
  CVE-2024-47606

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/1.24.8-1ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/1.24.2-1ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/1.20.3-0ubuntu1.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0/1.16.3-0ubuntu1.2