CVE-2016-9445

Publication date 23 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Integer overflow in the vmnc decoder in the gstreamer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large width and height values, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gst-plugins-bad0.10 17.04 zesty Not in release
16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.10.23-7.2ubuntu1.3
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.10.22.3-2ubuntu2.5
gst-plugins-bad1.0 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

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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