CVE-2024-47538

Publication date 12 December 2024

Last updated 8 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. A stack-buffer overflow has been detected in the `vorbis_handle_identification_packet` function within `gstvorbisdec.c`. The position array is a stack-allocated buffer of size 64. If vd->vi.channels exceeds 64, the for loop will write beyond the boundaries of the position array. The value written will always be `GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_NONE`. This vulnerability allows someone to overwrite the EIP address allocated in the stack. Additionally, this bug can overwrite the `GstAudioInfo` info structure. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gst-plugins-base0.10 25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
gst-plugins-base1.0 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Fixed 1.24.8-1ubuntu0.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1.24.2-1ubuntu0.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.20.1-1ubuntu0.4
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.16.3-0ubuntu1.4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm2

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
gst-plugins-base1.0

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7175-1
    • GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities
    • 18 December 2024
    • USN-7807-1
    • GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities
    • 7 October 2025

Other references