🛡️ CVE-2023-37327 — gstreamer

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-190 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

GStreamer FLAC File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of GStreamer. Interaction with this library is required to exploit this vulnerability but attack vectors may vary depending on the implementation.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of FLAC audio files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in an integer overflow before allocating a buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-20775.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-37327 is classified as CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Arithmetic produces a value too large for its type and wraps around, so a later size or bounds check passes when it should not.

Affected software

CVE-2023-37327 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gstreamer (from 1.22.0 up to 1.22.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 May 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

gstreamer.freedesktop.org
www.zerodayinitiative.com
gstreamer.freedesktop.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
www.zerodayinitiative.com

CVE-2023-37327 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-03
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gstreamer 1.22.0 1.22.4

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