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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2016-9812 json

The gst_mpegts_section_new function in the mpegts decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (…

published 2017-01-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10613

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The gst_mpegts_section_new function in the mpegts decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a too small section.

Patch / fix

  • gst-plugins-bad1.0 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.10.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9812

  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free RHEL 7 1.4.5-6.el7_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0021

  • gstreamer-plugins-bad SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +2 more 1.8.3-14.1
  • gstreamer-plugins-bad SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +5 more 1.2.4-3.4.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:3296-1SUSE-SU-2016:3297-1

  • gst-plugins-bad1 Alpine 3.5, Alpine 3.4 1.8.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-9812

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2016-9812 updated cvss 4.3

gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: Out-of-bounds read in gst_mpegts_section_new

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free 1.4.5-6.el7_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel 1.4.5-6.el7_3, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo 1.4.5-6.el7_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free 1.4.5-6.el7_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free 1.4.5-6.el7_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel 1.4.5-6.el7_3, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo 1.4.5-6.el7_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free 1.4.5-6.el7_3
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel 1.4.5-6.el7_3, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo 1.4.5-6.el7_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0021
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

3.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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