RHSA-2026:69866 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gstreamer1-plugins-base 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 gstreamer1-plugins-base packages contain a collection of well-maintained base plug-ins.

Security Fix(es):

• gstreamer: GStreamer: Arbitrary code execution via OGG file parsing buffer overflow (CVE-2026-18297)

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 - 2520572 - CVE-2026-18297 gstreamer: GStreamer: Arbitrary code execution via OGG file parsing buffer overflow

CVEs

• CVE-2026-18297

References

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