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CVE-2017-5843
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) gst_mini_object_unref, (2) gst_tag_list_unref, and (3)…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) gst_mini_object_unref, (2) gst_tag_list_unref, and (3) gst_mxf_demux_update_essence_tracks functions in GStreamer before 1.10.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving stream tags, as demonstrated by 02785736.mxf.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- DSA-3818 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777503 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 96001 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2060 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170202 Re: Multiple memory access issues in gstreamer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201705-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170201 Multiple memory access issues in gstreamer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200331 [SECURITY] [DLA 2164-1] gst-plugins-bad0.10 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-14920 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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