Gstreamer
CVE-2024-47599
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A10:2025 - Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Null pointer safety, defensive checks
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | While the CVSS 3.1 score of 7.5 appears high, the real-world risk is moderate based on multiple factors. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity and requires no privileges or user interaction (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), but the impact is limited to availability only (C:N/I:N/A:H). The EPSS score of 0.07% indicates very low probability of exploitation in the wild, placing it in the 22nd percentile of all CVEs. No proof-of-concept code is publicly available, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The primary impact is denial of service through application crashes, making this a stability issue rather than a critical security threat for most deployments. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker could craft a malicious JPEG file or media stream that triggers the null pointer dereference when processed by a vulnerable GStreamer instance, causing the application to crash immediately. This could be delivered through any service that accepts user-uploaded media files or processes external media streams, such as web applications, media servers, or streaming platforms. While no public proof-of-concept exists, the low attack complexity means that triggering the crash requires only sending specially crafted input to the vulnerable decoder. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Mar 17, 2026
A null pointer dereference vulnerability in GStreamer's JPEG decoder component allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering a segmentation fault when processing specially crafted media content. The vulnerability affects GStreamer versions prior to 1.24.10 and has a low exploitation probability (EPSS 0.07%) with no known active exploitation in the wild. While the CVSS score is high (7.5), the impact is limited to availability only, making this a medium-priority issue for most organizations.
RemediationAI
Upgrade GStreamer to version 1.24.10 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. The patch is available at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/8040.patch and can be applied to earlier versions if immediate upgrade is not feasible. As a temporary mitigation, consider implementing input validation for JPEG files before processing them through GStreamer, or isolating media processing services to minimize the impact of potential crashes. Debian users should apply the updates mentioned in https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00035.html.
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GStreamer is a widely-used open-source multimedia framework that constructs graphs of media-handling components for processing audio and video streams. The vulnerability occurs in the gst_jpeg_dec_negotiate function within the JPEG decoder plugin (gstjpegdec.c), where the code fails to validate the return value from gst_video_decoder_set_output_state before dereferencing it. This represents a classic CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability, where improper error handling leads to attempted access of memory location 0x0, causing an immediate crash of the application using the GStreamer library.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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2DescriptionGitHub Advisory
GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. A null pointer dereference vulnerability has been discovered in the gst_jpeg_dec_negotiate function in gstjpegdec.c. This function does not check for a NULL return value from gst_video_decoder_set_output_state. When this happens, dereferences of the outstate pointer will lead 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.
Executive ViewAI
Organizations using GStreamer face notable risk from CVE-2024-47599, a null pointer dereference vulnerability rated CVSS 7.5. Exploitation could compromise the security of affected deployments. A patch is available and should be applied as part of regular vulnerability management.
Apply vendor patch. If immediate patching is not feasible: (1) Implement network-level access controls to limit exposure; (2) Enable enhanced monitoring and alerting; (3) Apply principle of least privilege.
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Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)GitHub Advisory
Heap-based buffer overflow in the flx_decode_delta_fli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer
Heap-based buffer overflow in the flx_decode_delta_fli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer
Heap-based buffer overflow in the flx_decode_delta_fli function in gst/flx/gstflxdec.c in the FLIC decoder in GStreamer
The FLIC decoder in GStreamer before 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write an
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in GStreamer's RTSP connection parser that allows remote attackers to
A heap buffer over-read vulnerability exists in GStreamer's isomp4 plugin that allows reading past allocated memory boun
An integer overflow vulnerability in the GStreamer multimedia framework's matroska demuxer allows heap memory corruption
A critical integer overflow vulnerability in GStreamer's qtdemux element allows attackers to trigger denial of service o
A critical integer overflow vulnerability in the GStreamer multimedia framework's Matroska (MKV) demuxer can cause denia
An integer overflow vulnerability in GStreamer's Matroska demuxer can cause denial of service or potentially heap memory
An integer overflow vulnerability in GStreamer's AVI demux element allows attackers to trigger a heap overwrite when par
A heap overflow vulnerability exists in GStreamer's matroskaparse element due to an integer overflow in the gst_matroska
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