Debian DLA-99-1 : flac security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 82244

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Michele Spagnuolo, of Google Security Team, and Miroslav Lichvar, of Red Hat, discovered two issues in flac, a library handling Free Lossless Audio Codec media: by providing a specially crafted FLAC file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2014-8962

heap-based buffer overflow in stream_decoder.c, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted .flac file.

CVE-2014-9028

stack-based buffer overflow in stream_decoder.c, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted .flac file.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82244

File Name: debian_DLA-99.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac%2b%2b6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:flac, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac%2b%2b-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028

BID: 71280, 71282

Detections

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