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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wavpack (SUSE-SU-2021:14669-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150516

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2021:14669-1 advisory.

 - WavPack 5.3.0 has an out-of-bounds write in WavpackPackSamples in pack_utils.c because of an integer overflow in a malloc argument. NOTE: some third-parties claim that there are later unofficial releases through 5.3.2, which are also affected. (CVE-2020-35738)

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 libwavpack1 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180414

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6cef75e

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35738

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150516

File Name: suse_SU-2021-14669-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2021

Updated: 12/26/2023

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: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35738

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwavpack1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35738

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:14669-1