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CVE-2017-5837

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5837 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the gst_riff_create_audio_caps function within GStreamer's gst-plugins-base, affecting versions prior to 1.10.3. A remote attacker can trigger a floating point exception and crash by providing a specially crafted video file. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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
2.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0253 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 5,760 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (13)

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 5Fixed in: gstreamer-plugins-base
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: gstreamer-plugins-base
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gstreamer-plugins-base
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: mingw-virt-viewer

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5837Low

gstreamer-plugins-base: Floating point exception in gst_riff_create_audio_caps

Jan 15, 2017

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/2020/02/msg00032.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201705-10
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3819
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