GStreamer up to 1.24.9 matroska-demux.c null pointer dereference

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in GStreamer up to 1.24.9. It has been rated as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function gst_matroska_demux_parse_blockgroup_or_simpleblock of the file matroska-demux.c. This manipulation causes null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-47601. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in GStreamer up to 1.24.9. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function gst_matroska_demux_parse_blockgroup_or_simpleblock of the file matroska-demux.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. A null pointer dereference vulnerability has been discovered in the gst_matroska_demux_parse_blockgroup_or_simpleblock function within matroska-demux.c. This function does not properly check the validity of the GstBuffer *sub pointer before performing dereferences. As a result, null pointer dereferences may occur. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

The advisory is shared at securitylab.github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-47601 since 09/27/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213415 (Debian dsa-5838 : gstreamer1.0-gtk3 - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.24.10 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (213415). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Multimedia Processing Software

Name

• GStreamer

Version

• 1.24.0
• 1.24.1
• 1.24.2
• 1.24.3
• 1.24.4
• 1.24.5
• 1.24.6
• 1.24.7
• 1.24.8
• 1.24.9

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• open-source

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