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CVE-2016-9446 Details

Description

The vmnc decoder in the gstreamer does not initialize the render canvas, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060 CVE
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533 CVE
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UM7IXFGHV66KNWGWG6ZBDNKXD2UJL2VQ/ CVE
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-665Improper Initialization[email protected]

Affected Products

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Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-9446
NVD Published Date:
Jan 23, 2017
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-9446 Details - Not Deferred