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Vulnerability · Published Apr 19, 2021 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2021-3498

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity memory corruption in gstreamer-plugins-good. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.8% (higher than 78% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.8%top 21.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

GStreamer before 1.18.4 might cause heap corruption when parsing certain malformed Matroska files.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20gst-plugins-good1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.21gst-plugins-good1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.22gst-plugins-good1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.23gst-plugins-good1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.24gst-plugins-good1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.20gstreamer1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.21gstreamer1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.22gstreamer1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.23gstreamer1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Alpine:v3.24gstreamer1.18.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-3498
Debian:12gst-plugins-good1.01.18.4-2DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3498
Debian:13gst-plugins-good1.01.18.4-2DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3498
Debian:14gst-plugins-good1.01.18.4-2DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3498

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-good 1.18.4

Weakness: CWE-119

References