Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service vulnerability in GStreamer

Peter Wang of Cisco ASIG discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in GStreamer, a pipeline-based multimedia framework. GStreamer contains gst-rtsp-server, an open-source library that allows the user to build RTSP servers. This function contains an exploit that an attacker could use to cause a null pointer deference, resulting in a denial of service. In accordance with our coordinated disclosure policy, Cisco Talos...

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