CVE-2016-9445

high

Published 2017-01-23 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Integer overflow in the vmnc decoder in the gstreamer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large width and height values, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
arch		fixed	`1.10.2-2`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.10.1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.10.1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.10.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.10.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.10.1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gstreamer	gstreamer	`1.10.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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