CVE-2016-9811 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-9811?

CVE-2016-9811 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Jan 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The windows_icon_typefind function in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.2, when G_SLICE is set to always-malloc, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted ico file.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9811?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Gstreamer Gstreamer, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9811?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-9811 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9811 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 ALPINE-CVE-2016-9811, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9811, DLA-735-1, GHSA-f9mv-78h4-x2jx, MGASA-2017-0021, SUSE-SU-2017:0189-1 and 5 more.