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RHEL 4 / 5 : speex (RHSA-2008:0235)

high Nessus Plugin ID 31988

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated speex packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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

Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. The Speex package contains a library for handling Speex files and sample encoder and decoder implementations using this library.

The Speex library was found to not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an application or, possibly, allow arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the application calling the Speex library. (CVE-2008-1686)

All users of speex are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected speex and / or speex-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-1686

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0235

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31988

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0235.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:speex-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:speex, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.6

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: 4/16/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1686

BID: 28665

CWE: 189

RHSA: 2008:0235