USN-789-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• gst-plugins-good0.10 -

Details

Tielei Wang discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins did not correctly handle
malformed PNG image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted
PNG image file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a
denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.04

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.14-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 8.10

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.10.4-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 8.04

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.7-3ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 6.06

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good - 0.10.3-0ubuntu4.2

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-1932