CVE-2016-9634

Publication date 27 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flx_decode_delta_fli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via the start_line parameter.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gst-plugins-good0.10	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.10.31-3+nmu4ubuntu2.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 0.10.31-1ubuntu1.3
gst-plugins-good1.0	17.04 zesty	Fixed 1.10.2-1ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1.8.3-1ubuntu1.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.2.4-1~ubuntu1.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
gst-plugins-good1.0	Upstream: ?h=1.10 Upstream: ?h=1.10

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H