Denial of Service Vulnerability in GStreamer Products by Gnome
CVE-2017-5844

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Key Information:

Vendor: Gstreamer Project
Status: Gstreamer
Vendor: CVE Published:; 9 February 2017

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What is CVE-2017-5844?

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base prior to version 1.10.3 is susceptible to a denial of service risk. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by submitting a specially crafted ASF file, which may lead to a floating point exception and a subsequent crash of the affected application. This issue highlights a significant security concern, particularly for systems that process media files using GStreamer.