RHSA-2026:49517 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gstreamer-plugins-bad-free is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle 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 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free package contains a collection of plug-ins for GStreamer.

Security Fix(es):

• gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: GStreamer: Heap buffer overflow via crafted VNC server rectangle in librfb (CVE-2026-52720)
• gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: GStreamer: Signed integer overflow in VMnc decoder cursor payload handling (CVE-2026-52722)

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2486731 - CVE-2026-52720 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: GStreamer: Heap buffer overflow via crafted VNC server rectangle in librfb
• BZ - 2486733 - CVE-2026-52722 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: GStreamer: Signed integer overflow in VMnc decoder cursor payload handling

CVEs

• CVE-2026-52720
• CVE-2026-52722

References

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