CVE-2016-9813

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Published 2017-01-13 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

The _parse_pat function in the mpegts parser in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42162 dos linux verified text · 2 KB

Hanno Boeck · 2017-06-12

GStreamer gst-plugins-bad Plugin - NULL Pointer Dereference

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Source: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775120

The attached file will cause a null pointer access and segfault in the mpegts parser. Current git code, found with afl.

ASAN stack trace:
=================================================================
==32545==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x7fe957185495 bp 0x60200002cf7a sp 0x7fe956e027a0 T2)
==32545==The signal is caused by a WRITE memory access.
==32545==Hint: address points to the zero page.
    #0 0x7fe957185494 in _parse_pat /f/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/mpegts/gstmpegtssection.c:441:32
    #1 0x7fe957184058 in __common_section_checks /f/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/mpegts/gstmpegtssection.c:166:9
    #2 0x7fe95718522f in gst_mpegts_section_get_pat /f/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/mpegts/gstmpegtssection.c:480:9
    #3 0x7fe957438b9a in mpegts_base_apply_pat /f/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/gst/mpegtsdemux/mpegtsbase.c:942:20
    #4 0x7fe957438b9a in mpegts_base_handle_psi /f/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/gst/mpegtsdemux/mpegtsbase.c:1155
    #5 0x7fe957437cd1 in mpegts_base_chain /f/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/gst/mpegtsdemux/mpegtsbase.c:1424:11
    #6 0x7fe9574341e7 in mpegts_base_loop /f/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/gst/mpegtsdemux/mpegtsbase.c:1589:13
    #7 0x7fe9644305c3 in gst_task_func /f/gstreamer/gstreamer/gst/gsttask.c:334:5
    #8 0x7fe96362f867  (/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x70867)
    #9 0x7fe96362eed4  (/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x6fed4)
    #10 0x7fe9630ac443 in start_thread (/lib64/libpthread.so.0+0x7443)
    #11 0x7fe962bdb92c in clone (/lib64/libc.so.6+0xe792c)

AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV /f/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/mpegts/gstmpegtssection.c:441:32 in _parse_pat
Thread T2 (tsdemux0:sink) created by T1 (typefind:sink) here:
    #0 0x42e26d in __interceptor_pthread_create (/usr/bin/gst-discoverer-1.0+0x42e26d)
    #1 0x7fe96364cadf  (/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x8dadf)

Thread T1 (typefind:sink) created by T0 here:
    #0 0x42e26d in __interceptor_pthread_create (/usr/bin/gst-discoverer-1.0+0x42e26d)
    #1 0x7fe96364cadf  (/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x8dadf)

==32545==ABORTING


Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/42162.zip

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.10.2-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.10.2-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.10.2-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.10.2-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.10.2-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gstreamer	gstreamer	`{"endIncluding":"1.10.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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