CVE-2014-8154: Buffer Overflow

First published: Tue Jan 13 2015(Updated: )

Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff reported a heap-based buffer overflow in Vala Gstreamer bindings in the Gst.MapInfo() function. Further details are available in the following Red Hat bug: <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_CLOSED bz_closed bz_public " title="CLOSED EOL - All Vala programs that use Gst.MapInfo() are vulnerable to heap buffer overflow due to a bug in Vala bindings for GStreamer" href="show_bug.cgi?id=1177840">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177840</a> This issue was also reported via: <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678663">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678663</a> and fixed in the following commit: <a href="https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/commit/?id=3092537db65887e24a3d3e87a27caf9c5295e4f7">https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/commit/?id=3092537db65887e24a3d3e87a27caf9c5295e4f7</a>

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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