Ubuntu USN · USN-8205-1

GStreamer Bad Plugins vulnerabilities

Published: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:16

CVE-2023-40475CVE-2023-37329CVE-2025-3887CVE-2023-40474CVE-2023-44446CVE-2023-40476

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in GStreamer Bad Plugins.

Details

It was discovered that multiple plugins in GStreamer contained arithmetic overflows. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using the plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-37329, CVE-2023-40474, CVE-2023-40475, CVE-2023-40476) It was discovered that the MXF demuxer plugin in GStreamer did not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using the plugin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-44446) It was discovered that the H265 codec plugin in GStreamer could be made to write out of bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using the plugin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-3887)

Recommended actions per Ubuntu release

StackPatch playbook auto-generated per release codename and per affected package.

Ubuntu bionic

gst-plugins-bad1.0→1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gst-plugins-bad1.0
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0→1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gstreamer1.0-opencv→1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gstreamer1.0-opencv
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad→1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-doc→1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-doc
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
libgstreamer-opencv1.0-0→1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y libgstreamer-opencv1.0-0
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0→1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev→1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.

Ubuntu xenial

gst-plugins-bad1.0→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gst-plugins-bad1.0
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gstreamer1.0-hybris→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gstreamer1.0-hybris
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-doc→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-doc
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev→1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.

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