Fedora Core 2 : sox-12.17.4-4.fc2 (2004-244)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 13851

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated sox packages that fix buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code are now available. Buffer overflows existed in the parsing of WAV file header fields. It was possible that a malicious WAV file could have caused arbitrary code to be executed when the file was played or converted.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected sox, sox-debuginfo and / or sox-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?683084b8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 13851

File Name: fedora_2004-244.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/28/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:sox-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0557

FEDORA: 2004-244