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RHEL 9 : wavpack (RHSA-2022:8139)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 167641
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for wavpack.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8139 advisory.WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode.
Security Fix(es):
* wavpack: Heap out-of-bounds read in WavpackPackSamples() (CVE-2021-44269)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL wavpack package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:8139.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?1f1eb6cc
http://www.nessus.org/u?b35c9cab
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 167641
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8139.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/16/2022
Updated: 11/7/2024
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: 4.4
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Low
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44269
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:redhat:enterprise_linux:wavpack-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wavpack, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-44269