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CVE-2021-3185

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

A flaw was found in the gstreamer h264 component of gst-plugins-bad before v1.18.1 where when parsing a h264 header, an attacker could cause the stack to be smashed, memory corruption and possibly code execution.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Freedesktop — Gst-plugins-bad

CWEs

References

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