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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : wavpack (SUSE-SU-2022:2682-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163902

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2682-1 advisory.

 - A null pointer dereference bug was found in wavpack-5.4.0 The results from the ASAN log:
 AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL ===================================================================84257==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x561b47a970c6 bp 0x7fff13952fb0 sp 0x7fff1394fca0 T0) ==84257==The signal is caused by a WRITE memory access. ==84257==Hint: address points to the zero page. #0 0x561b47a970c5 in main cli/wvunpack.c:834 #1 0x7efc4f5c0082 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/libc.so.6+0x24082) #2 0x561b47a945ed in _start (/usr/local/bin/wvunpack+0xa5ed) AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV cli/wvunpack.c:834 in main ==84257==ABORTING (CVE-2022-2476)

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, wavpack and / or wavpack-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1201716

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2476

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf40c5ea

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163902

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2682-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/6/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2476

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wavpack, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwavpack1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wavpack-devel

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: 8/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2476

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2682-1