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RHEL 8 : mpg123 (RHSA-2024:11193)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 213149

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mpg123.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:11193 advisory.

 The mpg123 packages contain real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player/decoder for layers 1, 2, and 3 (most commonly MPEG 1.0 layer 3 also known as MP3), as well as re-usable decoding and output libraries.

 Security Fix(es):

 * mpg123: Buffer overflow when writing decoded PCM samples (CVE-2024-10573)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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

Update the RHEL mpg123 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:11193.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322980

http://www.nessus.org/u?592dfede

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:11193

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 213149

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-11193.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2024

Updated: 12/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-10573

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpg123-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpg123, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpg123-plugins-pulseaudio, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mpg123-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10573

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2024:11193