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CVE-2016-9813

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9813 describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the _parse_pat function of the mpegts parser within GStreamer versions prior to 1.10.2. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) by providing a specially crafted file. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, leading to high availability impact (A:H) but no confidentiality or integrity compromise. While not actively exploited in the wild (KEV: No), public exploit code exists on ExploitDB (EDB-42162), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.10.1CPE 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
7.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-42162 · Jun 12, 2017
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0797 is in the 98th 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9813Low

gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: NULL pointer dereference in mpegts parser

Nov 25, 2016

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0021.html
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
gstreamer.freedesktop.org / releases/1.10
Release NotesVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201705-10
exploit-db.com / exploits/42162
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3818
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/12/01/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/8
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95158
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry