Fedora 21 : flac-1.3.1-5.fc21 (2015-13160)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85477

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update flac to fix security issue in xmms-flac plugin (previously an independent subpackage that was out of date).

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 flac package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167236

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167741

http://www.nessus.org/u?c5d3d71c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85477

File Name: fedora_2015-13160.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2015

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:flac

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2015

Reference Information

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

FEDORA: 2015-13160