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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : WavPack vulnerability (USN-5721-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167272

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5721-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that WavPack was not properly performing checks when dealing with memory. If a user were tricked into decompressing a specially crafted WavPack Audio File, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the WavPack decompressor to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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 libwavpack-dev, libwavpack1 and / or wavpack packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5721-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167272

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5721-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2022

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:wavpack, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwavpack-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwavpack1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2476

USN: 5721-1