The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5904-1 advisory.

    Helmut Grohne discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, and Ubuntu     18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-13590)

    Helmut Grohne discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-23159, CVE-2021-23172, CVE-2021-23210, CVE-2021-33844,     CVE-2021-3643, CVE-2021-40426, CVE-2022-31650, and CVE-2022-31651)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : SoX vulnerabilities (USN-5904-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 172049

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Version 1.4 Aug 29, 2024, 4:23 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408291623
Version 1.3 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210506
Version 1.2 Sep 1, 2023, 4:18 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202309011618
Version 1.1 Mar 3, 2023, 2:05 AM Regenerated based on advisory update Plugin Feed: 202303030205
Version 1.0 Mar 2, 2023, 7:59 PM New Plugin Feed: 202303021959