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CVE-2016-9446

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9446 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the gstreamer vmnc decoder, affecting products like fedoraproject and redhat. The flaw stems from an uninitialized render canvas, allowing remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, such as through specially crafted vmnc movie thumbnails. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction required, leading to high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gstreamer:gstreamer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0357 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (11)

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 Linux 6Fixed in: gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: mingw-gstreamer-plugins-bad-free

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9446Low

gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Missing initialization of allocated heap memory leads to information leak

Nov 15, 2016

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2060
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
cgit.freedesktop.org / gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/commit/gst/vmnc/vmncdec.c
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UM7IXFGHV66KNWGWG6ZBDNKXD2UJL2VQ
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de / 2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201705-10
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/12
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/13
securityfocus.com / bid/94423