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CVE-2016-10198

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10198 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the gst_aac_parse_sink_setcaps function within GStreamer's gst-plugins-good, affecting versions prior to 1.10.3. An attacker can trigger an invalid memory read and crash by providing a specially crafted audio file. Rated Medium with a CVSS score of 5.5, this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), leading to high availability impact (A:H) without affecting confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting a low current threat landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gstreamer:gstreamer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0267 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (10)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: clutter-gst2-0:2.0.18-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gnome-video-effects-0:0.4.3-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gstreamer1-0:1.10.4-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.10.4-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gstreamer1-plugins-base-0:1.10.4-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gstreamer1-plugins-good-0:1.10.4-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0:0.10.23-23.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gstreamer-plugins-good-0:0.10.31-13.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: orc-0:0.4.26-1.el7
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: mingw-virt-viewer

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-10198Low

gstreamer-plugins-good: Invalid memory read in gst_aac_parse_sink_setcaps

Dec 1, 2016

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2060
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
gstreamer.freedesktop.org / releases/1.10
Release NotesVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00029.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201705-10
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3820
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/9
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96001
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry