CentOS 4 / 5 : flac (CESA-2007:0975)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27539

Synopsis

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

Description

An updated flac package to correct a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

FLAC is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. The flac package consists of a FLAC encoder and decoder in library form, a program to encode and decode FLAC files, a metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for various music players.

A security flaw was found in the way flac processed audio data. An attacker could create a carefully crafted FLAC audio file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with flac libraries to crash or execute arbitrary code when it was opened. (CVE-2007-4619)

Users of flac are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch that resolves this issue.

Solution

Update the affected flac packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27539

File Name: centos_RHSA-2007-0975.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmms-flac, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:flac, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:flac-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4619, CVE-2007-6277

BID: 26042

CWE: 119, 189

RHSA: 2007:0975

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