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high 8.8

CVE-2019-9928 json

GStreamer before 1.16.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the RTSP connection parser via a crafted response from a server, potentially al…

published 2019-04-24 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-19283

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.9%
EPSS 5.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

GStreamer before 1.16.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the RTSP connection parser via a crafted response from a server, potentially allowing remote code execution.

Patch / fix

  • gstreamer gstreamer 1.16.0
  • gst-plugins-base1.0 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.14.4-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9928

  • gst-plugins-base1.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3
  • gst-plugins-base1.0 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.14.1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.2
  • gst-plugins-base0.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.10.36-2ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9928

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • gstreamer-plugins-base SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP1, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 +4 more 1.12.5-3.3.1
  • gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +8 more 0.10.36-18.3.2
  • gstreamer-plugins-base SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2 +12 more 1.8.3-13.3.2
  • gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base SLES 11 SP4-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 0.10.35-5.18.5.1
  • gstreamer-plugins-base SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12-LTSS, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS 1.2.4-2.9.1
  • gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12-LTSS, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS 0.10.36-11.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1300-2SUSE-SU-2020:1300-1SUSE-SU-2019:1602-1SUSE-SU-2019:1600-1SUSE-SU-2019:1509-1SUSE-SU-2019:1508-1

  • gstreamer-plugins-base openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.18.5-2.1
  • gstreamer-plugins-base openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.12.5-lp151.3.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10828-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0678-1

  • gst-plugins-base Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +12 more 1.16.0-r0
  • gst-plugins-base Alpine 3.9 1.14.4-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-9928

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-9928 updated cvss 7.5

GStreamer: heap-based buffer overflow in the RTSP connection parser via crafted server response leading to remote code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gstreamer-plugins-base Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gstreamer-plugins-base
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-base-tools, gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gstreamer1-plugins-base
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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