CVE-2016-9446 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-9446?

CVE-2016-9446 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 23 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The vmnc decoder in the gstreamer does not initialize the render canvas, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas.

Weakness: CWE-665

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9446?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Gstreamer Gstreamer, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9446?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-9446 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9446, GHSA-3xp5-mpvc-wqpw, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9446.