Re: CVE Request: gstreamer plugins

[Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de>]

Hi,


On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:31:19 +0100
Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de> wrote:

> 1. Bufferoverflow in VMNC decoder in gstreamer plugins:
>       https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html

I wanted to point out that while it's good the buffer overflow gets
fixed, that's by far not the major issue here.

This is a very problematic design decision with the functionality of
tracker/GNOME that exposes all files on a system to who knows how many
decoders of probably overall very low quality.
Almost certainly there are countless other vulnerabilities of similar
kind in all kinds of gstreamer codecs. (and I haven't checked, but I
assume tracker also exposes other files to other equally problematic
decoders)

I think this is kinda a symptom of two goals clashing: We have projects
like gstreamer that attempt to parse every file format ever seen in
their are - which of course has some value, especially in terms of
preserving digital culture. But on the other hand exposing this code to
untrusted inputs is a security disaster.

I'm wondering if there is any statement or reaction from either gnome
or fedora on this.

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