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CVE-2022-1925

DOS / potential heap overwrite in mkv demuxing using HEADERSTRIP decompression.

Published 4 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.8
v3.1 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.5%
percentile 40%
Public exploits
0
none known

DOS / potential heap overwrite in mkv demuxing using HEADERSTRIP decompression. Integer overflow in matroskaparse element in gst_matroska_decompress_data function which causes a heap overflow. Due to restrictions on chunk sizes in the matroskademux element, the overflow can't be triggered, however the matroskaparse element has no size checks.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.46% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.17.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a GStreamer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

  • gitlab.freedesktop.org /gstreamer/gstreamer/-/issues/1225 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00001.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • debian.org /security/2022/dsa-5204 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, x_transferred

Sources

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