RHSA-2023:7840 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.

Security Fix(es):

• gstreamer: MXF demuxer use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2023-44446)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2250249 - CVE-2023-44446 gstreamer: MXF demuxer use-after-free vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2023-44446

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important