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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : audiofile vulnerability (USN-2787-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 86652

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2787-1 advisory.

 Fabrizio Gennari discovered that audiofile incorrectly handled changing both the sample format and the number of channels. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, audiofile could be made to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected audiofile-tools, libaudiofile-dev and / or libaudiofile1 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2787-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86652

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2787-1.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/29/2015

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7747

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaudiofile1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:audiofile-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaudiofile-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7747

USN: 2787-1