A flaw was found in the gstreamer h264 component of gst-plugins-bad before v1.18.1 where when parsing a h264 header, an attacker could cause the stack to be smashed, memory corruption and possibly code execution.
The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917192 | issue tracking third party advisory patch |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-31 | third party advisory vendor advisory |