USN-7837-1: GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerability

Publication date

22 October 2025

Overview

GStreamer Good Plugins could be made to crash as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.


Packages

Details

Shaun Mirani discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled
certain malformed media files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
disclose sensitive information.

Shaun Mirani discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled
certain malformed media files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
disclose sensitive information.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
20.04 LTS focal gstreamer1.0-gtk3 –  1.16.3-0ubuntu1.3+esm1  
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good –  1.16.3-0ubuntu1.3+esm1  
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio –  1.16.3-0ubuntu1.3+esm1  
gstreamer1.0-qt5 –  1.16.3-0ubuntu1.3+esm1  
libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 –  1.16.3-0ubuntu1.3+esm1  
18.04 LTS bionic gstreamer1.0-gtk3 –  1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm1  
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good –  1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm1  
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio –  1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm1  
gstreamer1.0-qt5 –  1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm1  
libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 –  1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm1  

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