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CVE-2021-3185 (GCVE-0-2021-3185)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-25 16:33 – Updated: 2024-08-03 16:45
VLAI
Summary
A flaw was found in the gstreamer h264 component of gst-plugins-bad before v1.18.1 where when parsing a h264 header, an attacker could cause the stack to be smashed, memory corruption and possibly code execution.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917192 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-31 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a gstreamer Affected: Fixed in gst-plugins-bad-1.18.1
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