CVE-2024-47601 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-47601: GHSL-2024-249: GStreamer has a NULL-pointer dereference in Matroska/WebM demuxer

Vendor Gstreamer
Product gstreamer
Weakness CWE-476
Published December 11, 2024
Last update November 3, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction —
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. A null pointer dereference vulnerability has been discovered in the gst_matroska_demux_parse_blockgroup_or_simpleblock function within matroska-demux.c. This function does not properly check the validity of the GstBuffer *sub pointer before performing dereferences. As a result, null pointer dereferences may occur. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.10.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 11, 2024 CVE published
November 3, 2025 Record updated