It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain Matroska files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-39043 ) It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain WAV files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-39044 ) It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain WavPack audio files. An attacker could use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. ( CVE-2026-53705 )
It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain Matroska files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-39043 )
It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain WAV files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-39044 )
It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain WavPack audio files. An attacker could use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. ( CVE-2026-53705 )
It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain Matroska files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-39043 ) It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain WAV files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-39044 ) It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain WavPack audio files. An attacker could use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. ( CVE-2026-53705 )
It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain Matroska files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-39043 )
It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain WAV files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-39044 )
It was discovered that GStreamer Good Plugins incorrectly handled certain WavPack audio files. An attacker could use this issue to cause GStreamer Good Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. ( CVE-2026-53705 )
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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