Description
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-good package. The FLV media demuxer does not properly validate buffer sizes and data availability when processing enhanced audio and video tags in malformed or truncated FLV streams. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted FLV media file that, when opened or streamed by a GStreamer-based application, triggers an assertion failure or a process crash, leading to denial of service.
Published: 2026-11-03
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: Denial of Service
Action: Apply Patch
AI Analysis

Impact

The vulnerability arises from an inability of the FLV media demuxer within GStreamer gst-plugins-good to validate buffer sizes and data availability for enhanced audio and video tags in malformed or truncated streams. This oversight can trigger an assertion failure or crash, resulting in denial of service for applications that process such media. The weakness corresponds to CWE-617—Bad Input Handling.

Affected Systems

Affected vendors and products include the GStreamer project’s gst-plugins-good component, and several Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases (10, 7, 8, 9). No specific version ranges are listed in the CNA data, so all versions of these products remain potentially vulnerable until a patch is applied. The CPE strings confirm these distributions.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score is 6.5, indicating a moderate severity. Exploitation requires only the delivery of a crafted FLV file; no special credentials are needed. The EPSS score is not available, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, suggesting no confirmed widespread exploitation. Because the flaw leads to a crash, its impact is limited to denial of service rather than remote code execution.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on November 3, 2026 at 11:23 UTC.

Remediation

Vendor Workaround

No mitigation is currently available that meets Red Hat Product Security's standards for usability, deployment, applicability, or stability.


OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Apply the official GStreamer patch for gst-plugins-good as described in the referenced merge request 11244, or upgrade to a later GStreamer release that includes the fix.
  • If a patch cannot be applied immediately, disable or prevent the use of the FLV demuxer in applications that rely on GStreamer by configuring the pipeline or engine to reject FLV streams.
  • Continuously monitor application logs and system stability for assertion failures or crashes that could indicate exploitation attempts of GStreamer-based media processing.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on November 3, 2026 at 11:23 UTC.

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History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-good package. The FLV media demuxer does not properly validate buffer sizes and data availability when processing enhanced audio and video tags in malformed or truncated FLV streams. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted FLV media file that, when opened or streamed by a GStreamer-based application, triggers an assertion failure or a process crash, leading to denial of service.
Title Gst-plugins-good: assertion failures in FLV demuxer when parsing malformed enhanced audio/video tags
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-617
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


Subscriptions

Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-03T09:45:25.949Z

Reserved: 2026-10-30T16:41:04.521Z

Link: CVE-2026-119843

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-11-03T10:17:16.113

Modified: 2026-11-03T10:17:16.260

Link: CVE-2026-119843

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-03T11:30:09Z

Weaknesses