An out-of-bounds read in MediaInfoLib::File__Tags_Helper::Synched_Test in Tag/File__Tags.cpp in MediaInfoLib in MediaArea MediaInfo 18.12 leads to a crash.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4859-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that MediaInfoLib contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia     files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfoLib     to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It was discovered that there were a number of vulnerabilities in libmediainfo, a library reading metadata such as track names, lengths, etc. from media files.

For Debian 9 'Stretch', these problems have been fixed in version 0.7.91-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmediainfo packages.

For the detailed security status of libmediainfo please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libmediainfo

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for libmediainfo fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-11373: Fixed out-of-bounds read in function     File__Analyze:Get_L8 (boo#1133156)

  - CVE-2019-11372: Fixed out-of-bounds read in function     MediaInfoLib:File__Tags_Helper:Synched_Test     (boo#1133157)

Update to 19.04.

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3988-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that MediaInfoLib contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia     files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfoLib     to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Fix CVE-2019-11372

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
183712	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : MediaInfoLib vulnerabilities (USN-4859-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
148072	Debian DLA-2603-1 : libmediainfo security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
126304	openSUSE Security Update : libmediainfo (openSUSE-2019-1629)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
125431	Fedora 29 : libmediainfo / mediaconch / mediainfo (2019-b7cf3236fb)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
125428	Fedora 28 : libmediainfo / mediaconch / mediainfo (2019-7155125125)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
125422	Fedora 30 : libmediainfo / mediaconch / mediainfo (2019-1736c1268d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
125253	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : MediaInfoLib vulnerabilities (USN-3988-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
124551	Fedora 30 : libmediainfo (2019-e640b27e7e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
124428	Fedora 29 : libmediainfo (2019-9d1e542c57)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
124427	Fedora 28 : libmediainfo (2019-79cb2bb18e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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