USN-9038-1: GStreamer Good Plugins, GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities
USN-9038-1
Summary
It was discovered that libass incorrectly handled parsing operations for specific nested character strings. An attacker could use this issue to cause libass to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-24994)
It was discovered that libass incorrectly handled certain outline processing operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause libass to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-26682)
It was discovered that libass incorrectly handled certain ASS subtitle files when measuring wrapped lines. An attacker could use this issue to cause libass to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-61627)
It was discovered that libass incorrectly handled certain Matroska subtitle chunks with negative ReadOrder values. An attacker could use this issue to cause libass to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-61626)
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CVEs in this advisory 4
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