CVE-2016-9635
gstreamer-plugins-good: Heap buffer overflow in FLIC decoder
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · November 21, 2016
Updated · July 31, 2026
Description
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.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
This mitigation is only required if vulnerable gstreamer-plugins-good and/or gstreamer1-plugins-good packages are installed.
For RHEL 7,
sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-1.0/libgstflxdec.so sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflxdec.so
For RHEL 5 and RHEL 6,
sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstflxdec.so
Please note that this mitigation deletes the vulnerable FLI/FLC/FLX animation demuxer file(s), which removes the functionality to play FLI/FLC/FLX animation files.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 · 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE not specified