Detections
Analytics
Fedora 8 : speex-1.2-0.4.beta2 (2008-3103)
high Nessus Plugin ID 31980
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Security update: Add mode checks to speex_packet_to_header() to protect applications using speex library and not having proper checks (CVE-2008-1686, #441239, https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14701)Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected speex package.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441239
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 31980
File Name: fedora_2008-3103.nasl
Version: 1.17
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 4/18/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 8.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:speex, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-1686
BID: 28665