RHSA-2017:0019 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: gstreamer-plugins-good security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · January 5, 2017
Updated · July 31, 2026
Topic
An update for gstreamer-plugins-good is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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-good packages contain a collection of well-supported plug-ins of good quality and under the LGPL license.
Security Fix(es):
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Multiple flaws were discovered in GStreamer's FLC/FLI/FLX media file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use these flaws to cause an application using GStreamer to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-9634, CVE-2016-9635, CVE-2016-9636, CVE-2016-9808)
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An invalid memory read access flaw was found in GStreamer's FLC/FLI/FLX media file format decoding plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash. (CVE-2016-9807)
Note: This update removes the vulnerable FLC/FLI/FLX plug-in.