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29 Vulnerabilities Discovered in GStreamer Framework

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🎥 Security Research Uncovers 29 Vulnerabilities in GStreamer Multimedia Framework. A recent security study focused on GStreamer, the open-source multimedia framework integral to GNOME, revealed 29 new vulnerabilities, primarily affecting MKV and MP4 formats. The researcher employed a novel approach by generating a custom input corpus from scratch to enhance fuzzing results, which led to the discovery of critical vulnerabilities that had previously gone undetected. GStreamer, widely used across various Linux distributions, supports numerous codecs and applications, making it a significant target for security research. The findings underscore the importance of robust security measures in multimedia frameworks to prevent potential exploitation.

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