CVE-2024-47613
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedGStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. A null pointer dereference vulnerability has been identified in `gst_gdk_pixbuf_dec_flush` within `gstgdkpixbufdec.c`. This function invokes `memcpy`, using `out_pix` as the destination address. `out_pix` is expected to point to the frame 0 from the frame structure, which is read from the input file. However, in certain situations, it can points to a NULL frame, causing the subsequent call to `memcpy` to attempt writing to the null address (0x00), leading to a null pointer dereference. This vulnerability can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) by triggering a segmentation fault (SEGV). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisThe code follows a pointer that is null, crashing the process. An attacker who can reliably trigger it turns the crash into a denial of service. The fix is checking for null before use and handling the failure path gracefully.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data< 1.24.10CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped1.24.10
1.24.10
- Identify the GStreamer packages installed on your system (e.g., using `dpkg -l | grep gstreamer` on Debian-based systems or `rpm -qa | grep gstreamer` on RHEL-based systems)
- Stop any applications or services that use GStreamer to avoid conflicts during the upgrade
- Upgrade GStreamer to version 1.24.10 or later using your system's package manager (e.g., `apt-get update && apt-get install gstreamer1.0*` for Debian/Ubuntu, or `dnf update gstreamer*` for Fedora/RHEL)
- Alternatively, if using a system where upgrade is not available, download and apply the vendor patch from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/8041.patch to rebuild the affected component
- Verify the installed version matches or exceeds 1.24.10 using `gst-inspect-1.0 --version` or checking the library files
- Restart any GStreamer-dependent applications and test that media playback/processing functions correctly
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