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Amazon Linux 2 : wavpack (ALAS-2023-2213)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180063

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of wavpack installed on the remote host is prior to 4.60.1-9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2213 advisory.

 A null pointer dereference bug was found in wavpack-5.4.0 The results from the ASAN log:
 AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL ===================================================================84257==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x561b47a970c6 bp 0x7fff13952fb0 sp 0x7fff1394fca0 T0) ==84257==The signal is caused by a WRITE memory access. ==84257==Hint: address points to the zero page. #0 0x561b47a970c5 in main cli/wvunpack.c:834 #1 0x7efc4f5c0082 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/libc.so.6+0x24082) #2 0x561b47a945ed in _start (/usr/local/bin/wvunpack+0xa5ed) AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV cli/wvunpack.c:834 in main ==84257==ABORTING (CVE-2022-2476)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update wavpack' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-2213.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2476.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180063

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2213.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, 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:amazon:linux:wavpack, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:wavpack-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:wavpack-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2476