SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ffmpeg-4 (SUSE-SU-2023:0172-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170717

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0172-1 advisory.

- A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in 'FFmpeg' in decode_main_header() function of libavformat/nutdec.c file. The flaw occurs because the function lacks check of the return value of avformat_new_stream() and triggers the null pointer dereference error, causing an application to crash.
(CVE-2022-3341)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170717

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0172-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/27/2023

Updated: 7/13/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3341

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavcodec58_134, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavformat58_76, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavutil56_70, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpostproc55_9, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswresample3_9, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswscale5_9, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3341

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0172-1

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