The project concerns the open-source component ‘GStreamer’, which serves as a technical framework for the processing and rendering of multimedia data and which is widely used in many systems. Through different milestones…
, this project aims in particular to systematically analyse and technically enhance the existing functionalities of selected components of “GStreamer” and to migrate them to the memory-safe programming language „Rust“. The aim of this project is mainly to sustainably reduce existing security-critica
l vulnerabilities, increase the stability of media processing and improve its maintainability. Overall, it therefore contributes to enhancing the security, trustworthiness and robustness of this central open-source component in the public i