CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: sox (CVE-2017-15371)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204604

Synopsis

The remote CBL Mariner host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The version of sox installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2017-15371 advisory.

- There is a reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment() in formats.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack during conversion of an audio file.
(CVE-2017-15371)

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 packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15371

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204604

File Name: mariner_CVE-2017-15371.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/24/2024

Updated: 7/24/2024

Supported Sensors: 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-2017-15371

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: x-cpe:/o:microsoft:cbl-mariner, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:sox, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:sox-devel, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:sox-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15371