CVE-2017-5839

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 09 Feb 2017, 15:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 15:11

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
4.33% LOW
4% probability +1.27%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Feb 2017, 15:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 15:11
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 4.33%• Percentile: 89%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-674•Uncontrolled Recursion

    The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Systems

  • gstreamer_project•gstreamer

    ≤ 1.10.2

  • gstreamer•gstreamer

    ≤ 1.10.2

References (8)