CVE-2024-47542

Summary

CVE-2024-47542 is a newly discovered vulnerability in the GStreamer media library. The issue lies within the id3v2.c file, specifically in the id3v2_read_synch_uint function. When this function is called with a null work->hdr.frame_data, it attempts to access the pointer guint8 *data without validation, resulting in a null pointer dereference. This vulnerability can trigger a segmentation fault (SEGV), leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The vulnerability is rectified in the 1.24.10 version.

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