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openSUSE Security Update : audiofile (audiofile-457)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39918

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A heap-overflow in libaudiofile was fixed. The overflow existsed in the WAV processing code and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-5824)

Solution

Update the affected audiofile packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463220

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39918

File Name: suse_11_0_audiofile-090121.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:audiofile-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:audiofile, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:audiofile-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5824

CWE: 119