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Debian DLA-1791-1 : faad2 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 125267

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in faad2, the Freeware Advanced Audio Coder :

CVE-2018-20194 CVE-2018-20197

Improper handling of implicit channel mapping reconfiguration leads to multiple heap based buffer overflow issues. These flaws might be leveraged by remote attackers to cause DoS.

CVE-2018-20198 CVE-2018-20362

Insufficient user input validation in the sbr_hfadj module leads to stack-based buffer underflow issues. These flaws might be leveraged by remote attackers to cause DoS or any other unspecified impact.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 2.7-8+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your faad2 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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00022.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/faad2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125267

File Name: debian_DLA-1791.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2019

Updated: 5/21/2024

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 Score Source: CVE-2018-20197

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:libfaad2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:faad, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfaad-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:faad2-dbg

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: 5/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20194, CVE-2018-20197, CVE-2018-20198, CVE-2018-20362