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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-827-1 gst-plugins-base0.10 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

18 Feb 2017

Affected Packages:

gst-plugins-base0.10

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5837, CVE-2017-5844.

More information:

It was discovered that it is possible to trigger a floating point exception in GStreamer via specially crafted files, causing a denial of service.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.10.36-1.1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gst-plugins-base0.10 packages.

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