Stack Overflow Vulnerability in gst-plugins-base

CVE-2017-5839 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.

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