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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : libvorbis vulnerabilities (USN-861-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 42891

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle ogg files with underpopulated Huffman trees. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted ogg file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2009)

It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle certain malformed ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted ogg file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2009-3379).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/861-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 42891

File Name: ubuntu_USN-861-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/25/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvorbis0a, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvorbis-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvorbisenc2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvorbisfile3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2009, CVE-2009-3379

BID: 36875

USN: 861-1