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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : MediaInfoLib vulnerabilities (USN-4859-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183712

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4859-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that MediaInfoLib contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfoLib to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4859-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183712

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4859-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/23/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

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-2019-11373

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmediainfo-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmediainfo0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-mediainfodll, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmediainfo0v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-mediainfodll, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11372, CVE-2019-11373

USN: 4859-1