Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2972
Advisory Released Date: 2025-08-19
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-08-19
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Integer overflow leading to heap overwrite in MXF file handling with uncompressed video
NOTE: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2023-0006.html
NOTE: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5362
NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/commit/ce17e968e4cf900d28ca5b46f6e095febc42b4f0 (CVE-2023-40474)
Affected Packages:
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update gstreamer-plugins-bad-free or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2972 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
i686:
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.i686
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.i686
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.i686
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.i686
src:
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.src
x86_64:
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel-docs-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0.10.23-42.amzn2.0.3.x86_64