High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9445
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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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