back to basic bug bounties
back to basic bug bounties
Posted Dec 12, 2016 0:29 UTC (Mon) by JanC_ (guest, #34940)In reply to: back to basic bug bounties by Sesse
Parent article: GStreamer and the state of Linux desktop security
In this particular example case, FLIC was used, and FLIC seems to be supported with the help of ffmpeg (or libav, depending on what distro & version), so it looks like it didn't show up in earlier fuzzing of ffmpeg.
So, GStreamer should get a similar treatment and be fuzzed to hell, but clearly that isn't enough, and applications like that should always run in a way that the rest of the system is protected from whatever leftover bugs are still around (because otherwise one bug in one obscure format is enough to abuse it).