ALPINE-CVE-2017-5839

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5839
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-5839.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-5839
Upstream
Published
2017-02-09T15:59:01Z
Modified
2026-06-15T18:24:09Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.4 / gst-plugins-base1

Package

Name
gst-plugins-base1
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/gst-plugins-base1?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8.3-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-5839.json"

Alpine:v3.5 / gst-plugins-base1

Package

Name
gst-plugins-base1
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/gst-plugins-base1?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8.3-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-5839.json"