CVE-2024-40897

6.7 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.7) in gstreamer orc. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in orcparse.c of ORC versions prior to 0.4.39. If a developer is tricked to process a specially crafted file with the affected ORC compiler, an arbitrary code may be executed on the developer's build environment. This may lead to compromise of developer machines or CI build environments.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.7 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-787, CWE-121
Published: 2024-07-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gstreamer:orc

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/26/1
https://github.com/GStreamer/orc
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/orc.html
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN02030803/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/26/1

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