🛡️ CVE-2023-44429 — gstreamer

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-122 NVD

8.8

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

GStreamer AV1 Codec Parsing Heap-based Buffer 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 AV1 encoded video files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-22226.

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-2023-44429 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

CVE-2023-44429 is recorded against 1 package.

gstreamer (fixed in 1.22.7)

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
www.zerodayinitiative.com

CVE-2023-44429 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Debian Ubuntu

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-122

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2024-05-03

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2023-0009.html

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
gstreamer	—	1.22.7

References

Patch, Release Notes https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2023-0009.html

Third Party Advisory https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1648/

Patch, Release Notes https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2023-0009.html

Third Party Advisory https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1648/

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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