Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 11, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025
GHSL-2024-249: GStreamer has a NULL-pointer dereference in Matroska/WebM demuxer
CVE-2024-47601
Description
GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. A null pointer dereference vulnerability has been discovered in the gst_matroska_demux_parse_blockgroup_or_simpleblock function within matroska-demux.c. This function does not properly check the validity of the GstBuffer *sub pointer before performing dereferences. As a result, null pointer dereferences may occur. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.
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References
2- gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2024-0020.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
- securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-249_Gstreamer/mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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