Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-9446 - Improper Initialization vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE

Summary

The vmnc decoder in the gstreamer does not initialize the render canvas, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gstreamer_Project
96
OS
Redhat
12
OS
Fedoraproject
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Leveraging Race Conditions
    This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
  • Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
    This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.

Nessus

  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201705-10.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201705-10 (GStreamer plug-ins: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in various GStreamer plug-ins. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system using a GStreamer plug-in to process a specially crafted file, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id100263
    published2017-05-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100263
    titleGLSA-201705-10 : GStreamer plug-ins: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-3296-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following security issues, which would allow attackers able to submit media files for indexing to cause code execution or crashes : - Check an integer overflow (CVE-2016-9445) and initialize a buffer (CVE-2016-9446) in vmncdec. (bsc#1010829) - CVE-2016-9809: Ensure codec_data has the right size when reading number of SPS (bsc#1013659). - CVE-2016-9812: Add more section size checks (bsc#1013678). - CVE-2016-9813: fix PAT parsing (bsc#1013680). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96258
    published2017-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96258
    titleSUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gstreamer-plugins-bad (SUSE-SU-2016:3296-1)
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2017-1205.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the versions of the gstreamer packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Multiple flaws were found in gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free packages. An attacker could potentially use these flaws to crash applications which use the GStreamer framework. (CVE-2016-9446, CVE-2016-9810, CVE-2016-9811, CVE-2016-10198, CVE-2016-10199, CVE-2017-5837, CVE-2017-5838, CVE-2017-5839, CVE-2017-5840, CVE-2017-5841, CVE-2017-5842, CVE-2017-5843, CVE-2017-5844, CVE-2017-5845, CVE-2017-5848) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-10
    modified2017-09-11
    plugin id103063
    published2017-09-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103063
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP1 : gstreamer (EulerOS-SA-2017-1205)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-64.NASL
    descriptionThis update for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-9445, CVE-2016-9446: Protection against buffer overflows (bsc#1010829) - CVE-2016-9447: Disable the nsf plugin (bsc#1010514) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-01-10
    plugin id96383
    published2017-01-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96383
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad (openSUSE-2017-64)
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2017-1206.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the versions of the gstreamer packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Multiple flaws were found in gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free packages. An attacker could potentially use these flaws to crash applications which use the GStreamer framework. (CVE-2016-9446, CVE-2016-9810, CVE-2016-9811, CVE-2016-10198, CVE-2016-10199, CVE-2017-5837, CVE-2017-5838, CVE-2017-5839, CVE-2017-5840, CVE-2017-5841, CVE-2017-5842, CVE-2017-5843, CVE-2017-5844, CVE-2017-5845, CVE-2017-5848) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-03
    modified2017-09-11
    plugin id103064
    published2017-09-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103064
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP2 : gstreamer (EulerOS-SA-2017-1206)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2016-1481.NASL
    descriptionThis update for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad fixes the following issues : - Maliciously crafted VMnc files (VMware video format) could lead to crashes (CVE-2016-9445, CVE-2016-9446, boo#1010829). - Maliciously crafted NSF files (NES sound format) could lead to arbitrary code execution (CESA-2016-0001, boo#1010514). Therefore for security reasons the NSF plugin has been removed from the package.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-12-14
    plugin id95818
    published2016-12-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95818
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad (openSUSE-2016-1481)
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2017-2060.NASL
    descriptionAn update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: clutter-gst2 (2.0.18), gnome-video-effects (0.4.3), gstreamer1 (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-base (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-good (1.10.4), orc (0.4.26). Security Fix(es) : * Multiple flaws were found in gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free packages. An attacker could potentially use these flaws to crash applications which use the GStreamer framework. (CVE-2016-9446, CVE-2016-9810, CVE-2016-9811, CVE-2016-10198, CVE-2016-10199, CVE-2017-5837, CVE-2017-5838, CVE-2017-5839, CVE-2017-5840, CVE-2017-5841, CVE-2017-5842, CVE-2017-5843, CVE-2017-5844, CVE-2017-5845, CVE-2017-5848) Additional Changes : For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102150
    published2017-08-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102150
    titleRHEL 7 : GStreamer (RHSA-2017:2060)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2016-1483.NASL
    descriptionThis update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following issues : - Maliciously crafted VMnc (VMware video) streams (typically contained in .avi files) could cause code execution during decoding or information leaks due to an uninitialized buffer (CVE-2016-9445, CVE-2016-9446, boo#1010829).
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-12-16
    plugin id95912
    published2016-12-16
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95912
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : gstreamer-plugins-bad (openSUSE-2016-1483)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2017-0027-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-9445, CVE-2016-9446: Protection against buffer overflows (bsc#1010829) - CVE-2016-9447: Disable the nsf plugin (bsc#1010514) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96334
    published2017-01-06
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96334
    titleSUSE SLED12 Security Update : gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad (SUSE-SU-2017:0027-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-63.NASL
    descriptionThis update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following security issues, which would allow attackers able to submit media files for indexing to cause code execution or crashes : - Check an integer overflow (CVE-2016-9445) and initialize a buffer (CVE-2016-9446) in vmncdec. (bsc#1010829) - CVE-2016-9809: Ensure codec_data has the right size when reading number of SPS (bsc#1013659). - CVE-2016-9812: Add more section size checks (bsc#1013678). - CVE-2016-9813: fix PAT parsing (bsc#1013680). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-01-10
    plugin id96382
    published2017-01-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96382
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : gstreamer-plugins-bad (openSUSE-2017-63)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-3297-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-9809: Malicious mkv/h264 file could cause an off by one out of bounds read and lead to crash (bsc#1013659) - CVE-2016-9812: Malicious mpeg file could cause invalid a NULL pointer access and lead to crash (bsc#1013678) - CVE-2016-9813: Malicious mpegts file could cause invalid a NULL pointer access and lead to crash (bsc#1013680) - CVE-2016-9445, CVE-2016-9446: Check an integer overflow and initialize a buffer in vmncdec (bsc#1010829) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96259
    published2017-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96259
    titleSUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gstreamer-plugins-bad (SUSE-SU-2016:3297-1)
  • NASL familyScientific Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idSL_20170802_GSTREAMER_ON_SL7_X.NASL
    descriptionThe following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: clutter-gst2 (2.0.18), gnome-video-effects (0.4.3), gstreamer1 (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-base (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-good (1.10.4), orc (0.4.26). Security Fix(es) : - Multiple flaws were found in gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free packages. An attacker could potentially use these flaws to crash applications which use the GStreamer framework. (CVE-2016-9446, CVE-2016-9810, CVE-2016-9811, CVE-2016-10198, CVE-2016-10199, CVE-2017-5837, CVE-2017-5838, CVE-2017-5839, CVE-2017-5840, CVE-2017-5841, CVE-2017-5842, CVE-2017-5843, CVE-2017-5844, CVE-2017-5845, CVE-2017-5848)
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2017-08-22
    plugin id102659
    published2017-08-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102659
    titleScientific Linux Security Update : GStreamer on SL7.x x86_64 (20170802)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-712.NASL
    descriptionCVE-2016-9445 CVE-2016-9446 Chris Evans discovered that the GStreamer plugin to decode VMware screen capture files allowed the execution of arbitrary code. He also found that an initialized buffer may lead into memory disclosure. CVE-2016-9447 Chris Evans discovered that the GStreamer 0.10 plugin to decode NES Sound Format files allowed the execution of arbitrary code. For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2016-11-21
    plugin id94983
    published2016-11-21
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94983
    titleDebian DLA-712-1 : gst-plugins-bad0.10 security update
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2017-0028-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-9445, CVE-2016-9446: Protection against buffer overflows (bsc#1010829) - CVE-2016-9447: Disable the nsf plugin (bsc#1010514) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96335
    published2017-01-06
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96335
    titleSUSE SLED12 Security Update : gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad (SUSE-SU-2017:0028-1)
  • NASL familyCentOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idCENTOS_RHSA-2017-2060.NASL
    descriptionAn update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: clutter-gst2 (2.0.18), gnome-video-effects (0.4.3), gstreamer1 (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-base (1.10.4), gstreamer1-plugins-good (1.10.4), orc (0.4.26). Security Fix(es) : * Multiple flaws were found in gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free packages. An attacker could potentially use these flaws to crash applications which use the GStreamer framework. (CVE-2016-9446, CVE-2016-9810, CVE-2016-9811, CVE-2016-10198, CVE-2016-10199, CVE-2017-5837, CVE-2017-5838, CVE-2017-5839, CVE-2017-5840, CVE-2017-5841, CVE-2017-5842, CVE-2017-5843, CVE-2017-5844, CVE-2017-5845, CVE-2017-5848) Additional Changes : For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102752
    published2017-08-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102752
    titleCentOS 7 : clutter-gst2 / gnome-video-effects / gstreamer-plugins-bad-free / etcgstreamer1 / etc (CESA-2017:2060)

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2017:2060
rpms
  • clutter-gst2-0:2.0.18-1.el7
  • clutter-gst2-debuginfo-0:2.0.18-1.el7
  • clutter-gst2-devel-0:2.0.18-1.el7
  • gnome-video-effects-0:0.4.3-1.el7
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.23-23.el7
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.23-23.el7
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-0:0.10.23-23.el7
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs-0:0.10.23-23.el7
  • gstreamer-plugins-good-0:0.10.31-13.el7
  • gstreamer-plugins-good-debuginfo-0:0.10.31-13.el7
  • gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-docs-0:0.10.31-13.el7
  • gstreamer1-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-debuginfo-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-devel-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-devel-docs-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.10.4-1.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-base-debuginfo-0:1.10.4-1.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel-0:1.10.4-1.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel-docs-0:1.10.4-1.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools-0:1.10.4-1.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-good-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • gstreamer1-plugins-good-debuginfo-0:1.10.4-2.el7
  • orc-0:0.4.26-1.el7
  • orc-compiler-0:0.4.26-1.el7
  • orc-debuginfo-0:0.4.26-1.el7
  • orc-devel-0:0.4.26-1.el7
  • orc-doc-0:0.4.26-1.el7