Debian DLA-1687-1 : sox security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 122405

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Mike Salvatore discovered that the fixes for these heap-based buffer overflows had not been properly applied in the Debian package.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 14.4.1-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your sox 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: High

ID: 122405

File Name: debian_DLA-1687.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/25/2019

Updated: 6/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8145

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox-fmt-alsa, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox-fmt-base, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sox, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox-fmt-oss, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox-fmt-pulse, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox-fmt-all, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox-fmt-mp3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsox-fmt-ao

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: 2/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/31/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8145

BID: 71774

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