Debian DLA-1277-1 : audacity security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106725

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Chris Navarrete from Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs discovered that Audacity, a multi-track audio editor, contains a vulnerability such that a .wav file with a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure (many channels) can result in a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash).

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.1-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your audacity packages.

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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106725

File Name: debian_DLA-1277.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/12/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:audacity-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:audacity-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:audacity

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2540

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