Red Hat Security Advisory: gstreamer1-plugins-base security update
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the gstreamer1-plugins-base package used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4. These include stack-buffer overflows in vorbis_handle_identification_packet and gst_opus_dec_parse_header, as well as an out-of-bounds write in the Ogg demuxer. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory with updates to address these issues.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The gstreamer1-plugins-base package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 contains multiple security flaws: a stack-buffer overflow in vorbis_handle_identification_packet (CVE-2024-47538), an out-of-bounds write in the Ogg demuxer (CVE-2024-47615), and a stack-buffer overflow in gst_opus_dec_parse_header (CVE-2024-47607). These vulnerabilities could potentially lead to memory corruption. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory (RHSA-2024:11143) providing updated packages to remediate these issues.
Potential Impact
The identified vulnerabilities involve memory corruption issues such as stack-buffer overflows and out-of-bounds writes in media stream processing plugins. Exploitation could lead to application crashes or potentially arbitrary code execution, depending on the context of use. The advisory rates the impact as important but does not provide a CVSS score. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated gstreamer1-plugins-base packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 variants that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:11143 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Since this is an on-premises product, remediation requires manual update by system administrators.
Red Hat Security Advisory: gstreamer1-plugins-base security update
Description
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the gstreamer1-plugins-base package used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4. These include stack-buffer overflows in vorbis_handle_identification_packet and gst_opus_dec_parse_header, as well as an out-of-bounds write in the Ogg demuxer. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory with updates to address these issues.
Affected software
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AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The gstreamer1-plugins-base package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 contains multiple security flaws: a stack-buffer overflow in vorbis_handle_identification_packet (CVE-2024-47538), an out-of-bounds write in the Ogg demuxer (CVE-2024-47615), and a stack-buffer overflow in gst_opus_dec_parse_header (CVE-2024-47607). These vulnerabilities could potentially lead to memory corruption. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory (RHSA-2024:11143) providing updated packages to remediate these issues.
Potential Impact
The identified vulnerabilities involve memory corruption issues such as stack-buffer overflows and out-of-bounds writes in media stream processing plugins. Exploitation could lead to application crashes or potentially arbitrary code execution, depending on the context of use. The advisory rates the impact as important but does not provide a CVSS score. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated gstreamer1-plugins-base packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 variants that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:11143 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Since this is an on-premises product, remediation requires manual update by system administrators.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2024:11143
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2024-47607","CVE-2024-47615"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a419cc127e9c79719ac0cf9
Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:25 UTC
Last enriched: 06/28/2026, 22:40:45 UTC
Last updated: 07/03/2026, 10:51:10 UTC
Views: 21
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