RHEL 4 : alsa-lib (RHSA-2005:033)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 17167

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for alsa-lib.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:033 advisory.

The alsa-lib package provides a library of functions for communication with kernel sound drivers.

A flaw in the alsa mixer code was discovered that caused stack execution protection to be disabled for the libasound.so library.
The effect of this flaw is that stack execution protection, through NX or Exec-Shield, would be disabled for any application linked to libasound.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0087 to this issue

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a patched version of the library which correctly enables stack execution protection.

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 alsa-lib package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:033.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 17167

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-033.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/22/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-0087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:alsa-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:alsa-lib-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0087

RHSA: 2005:033

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