RHSA-2016:2974HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free security update

Published
December 21, 2016
Last Modified
July 31, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2016-9445 →CVE-2016-9447 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-9445 — gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Integer overflow when allocating render buffer in VMnc decoder CVE-2016-9447 — gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Memory corruption flaw in NSF decoder

🎯 Affected products67

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:0.10.19-5.el6_8.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: This mitigation is only required if vulnerable gstreamer-plugins-bad-free and/or gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free packages are installed. For RHEL 7, sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-1.0/libgstvmnc.so sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvmnc.so For RHEL 6, sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvmnc.so Please note that this mitigation deletes the vulnerable VMware NC decoder, which removes the functionality to play VMware movie files. Workaround: sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstnsf.so Please note that this mitigation deletes the vulnerable NSF codec file, which removes the functionality to play Nintendo NSF music files.

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