USN-735-1: GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10

Packages

• gst-plugins-base0.10 -

Details

It was discovered that the Base64 decoding functions in GStreamer Base
Plugins did not properly handle large images in Vorbis file tags. If a user
were tricked into opening a specially crafted Vorbis file, an attacker
could possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.10

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-base - 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1

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

References

• CVE-2009-0586