CentOS 8 : gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free (CESA-2023:7841)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187738

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2023:7841 advisory.

- MXF demuxer use-after-free vulnerability [fedora-all] (CVE-2023-44446)

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 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free and / or gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7841

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 187738

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2023-7841.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2024

Updated: 1/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44446

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44446

RHSA: 2023:7841