CVE-2016-9635

Publication date 27 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the flx_decode_delta_fli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by providing a 'skip count' that goes beyond initialized buffer.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gst-plugins-good0.10	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.10.31-3+nmu4ubuntu2.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 0.10.31-1ubuntu1.3
gst-plugins-good1.0	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

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
gst-plugins-good1.0	Upstream: ?h=1.10 Upstream: ?h=1.10

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H