CVE-2024-47606
criticalGStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components.
Vendor / product: Gstreamer — gstreamer
GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. An integer underflow has been detected in the function qtdemux_parse_theora_extension within qtdemux.c. The vulnerability occurs due to an underflow of the gint size variable, which causes size to hold a large unintended value when cast to an unsigned integer. This 32-bit negative value is then cast to a 64-bit unsigned integer (0xfffffffffffffffa) in a subsequent call to gst_buffer_new_and_alloc. The function gst_buffer_new_allocate then attempts to allocate memory, eventually calling _sysmem_new_block. The function _sysmem_new_block adds alignment and header size to the (unsigned) size, causing the overflow of the 'slice_size' variable. As a result, only 0x89 bytes are allocated, despite the large input size. When the following memcpy call occurs in gst_buffer_fill, the data from the input file will overwrite the content of the GstMapInfo info structure. Finally, during the call to gst_memory_unmap, the overwritten memory may cause a function pointer hijack, as the mem->allocator->mem_unmap_full function is called with a corrupted pointer. This function pointer overwrite could allow an attacker to alter the execution flow of the program, leading to arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
References
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/8032.patch security-advisories@github.com
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2024-0014.html security-advisories@github.com
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-166_Gstreamer/ security-advisories@github.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00016.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00035.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250418-0003/ af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

