Denial of Service Vulnerability in GStreamer 0.10.x Products
CVE-2016-9447

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor: Gstreamer Project
Status: Gstreamer
Vendor: CVE Published:; 23 January 2017

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What is CVE-2016-9447?

The NSF decoder in GStreamer version 0.10.x has a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to exploit vulnerabilities through specially crafted NSF music files. These files can lead to denial of service due to out-of-bounds reads or writes, and in some cases, may allow for the execution of arbitrary code, posing significant security risks to systems using this software. Users are recommended to update their instances to mitigate potential threats.