RHEL 6 : libvorbis (RHSA-2018:0649)

high Nessus Plugin ID 108869

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for libvorbis.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0649 advisory.

The libvorbis package contains runtime libraries for use in programs that support Ogg Vorbis, a fully open, non-proprietary, patent- and royalty-free, general-purpose compressed format for audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) (CVE-2018-5146)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla Project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Richard Zhu via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative as the original reporter.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL libvorbis package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0649.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108869

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0649.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/6/2018

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5146

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvorbis-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvorbis, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvorbis-devel-docs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5146

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2018:0649

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