Debian DSA-4125-1 : wavpack - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 107025

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Joonun Jang discovered several problems in wavpack, an audio compression format suite. Incorrect processing of input resulted in several heap- and stack-based buffer overflows, leading to application crash or potential code execution.

Solution

Upgrade the wavpack packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.0.0-2+deb9u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107025

File Name: debian_DSA-4125.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/28/2018

Updated: 4/5/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wavpack, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6767, CVE-2018-7253, CVE-2018-7254

DSA: 4125

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