fuzzed mpeg causes segfault in gstreamer

Bug #164940 reported by Stephen Cook
258
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GStreamer
Fix Released
Critical
gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

I was able to get totem (my quick diagnosis puts the bug in gstreamer) to segfault when fuzzing an mpeg.

This bug might be a security bug. I have not looked at the source code to see why it crashed.

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Stephen Cook (siti) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

Changed in gstreamer0.10:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Craig (candrews-integralblue) wrote :

Stack trace is in the gnome bugzilla (linked to above): http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553295

Changed in gstreamer0.10:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
Changed in gstreamer:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gstreamer0.10:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in gstreamer:
status: New → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug is fixed upstream now

affects: gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu) → gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)
Changed in gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the new version is in ubuntu now, closing the bug

Changed in gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gstreamer:
importance: Unknown → Critical
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