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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-9445

Integer overflow in the vmnc decoder in the gstreamer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large width and height values, which triggers a buffer overflow.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:24 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-9445

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Jan 2017, 21:59 UTC

Integer overflow in the vmnc decoder in the gstreamer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large width and height values, which triggers a buffer overflow.

osv:CVE-2016-9445
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9445",
  "method": "structured",
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    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-9445",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:39.013803611Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c?id=4cb1bcf1422bbcd79c0f683edb7ee85e3f7a31fe",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10",
        "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774533",
        "https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434573,
  "published_at": "2017-01-23T21:59:03.017+00:00"
}