Description
A flaw was found in GStreamer's RealMedia demuxer in the gst-plugins-ugly package. When processing a RealMedia file containing a specially crafted FILEINFO metadata section, the demuxer parses variable-name and variable-value pairs using re_skip_pascal_string() without validating that offsets remain within the mapped buffer. Additionally, the element count controlling the parsing loop is read from attacker-controlled data without validation, which can cause an infinite loop. A crafted RealMedia file can cause the application to crash, hang, or potentially read limited adjacent memory contents.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Default version status: affected
0:1.26.7-2.el10_2.1 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support
Default version status: affected
0:1.24.11-1.el10_0.2 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Default version status: affected
0:1.22.12-6.el9_8.1 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support
Default version status: affected
0:1.22.12-4.el9_6.1 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Default version status: unaffected
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36673 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36674 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50688 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50691 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53704 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487614 ↗