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Fedora 24 : ming (2017-ed6b6a1d7a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99447

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Release 0.4.8 (no ABI or API changes)

 - Add PHP7 compatibility

 - Fix C++ output of disassembler

 - Fix heap overflows in parser.c (CVE-2017-7578)

 - Avoid division by zero in listmp3 when no valid frame was found (CVE-2016-9265)

 - Don't try printing unknown block (CVE-2016-9828)

 - Parse Protect tag's Password as string (CVE-2016-9827)

 - Check values before deriving malloc parameters from them in parser.c (CVE-2016-9829)

 - Make readString() stop reading string past buffer's end

 - Return EOF when reading unsigned values hits end of memory backed buffer

 - Exit immediately when unexpected EOF is by fgetc() in utility programs (CVE-2016-9831)

 - Fix using EOF marker -1 value as a valid flag byte (CVE-2016-9266)

 - Fix division by zero sample rate due to global buffer overflow (CVE-2016-9264, CVE-2016-9265)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected ming package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-ed6b6a1d7a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99447

File Name: fedora_2017-ed6b6a1d7a.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/19/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ming, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9264, CVE-2016-9265, CVE-2016-9266, CVE-2016-9827, CVE-2016-9828, CVE-2016-9829, CVE-2016-9831, CVE-2017-7578