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RHEL 7 : taglib (RHSA-2020:1175)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135037

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1175 advisory.

 TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data of different audio formats.

 Security Fix(es):

 * taglib: heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted audio file (CVE-2018-11439)

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

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 taglib package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1175.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc96256e

http://www.nessus.org/u?f60f0510

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1175

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1584868

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135037

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1175.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/31/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11439

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:taglib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:taglib-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:taglib-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11439

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2020:1175