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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : PulseAudio vulnerability (USN-4519-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140651

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4519-1 advisory.

 Ratchanan Srirattanamet discovered that an Ubuntu-specific patch caused PulseAudio to incorrectly handle memory under certain error conditions in the Bluez 5 module. An attacker could use this issue to cause PulseAudio to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2020-15710)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4519-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140651

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4519-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2020

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15710

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse-mainloop-glib0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-jack, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-trust-store, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulsedsp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-gconf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-esound-compat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-zeroconf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpulse-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-droid, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-raop, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-lirc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pulseaudio-module-x11

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15710

USN: 4519-1