GLSA-200607-13 : Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22142

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200607-13 (Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows)

Luigi Auriemma has found that the adplug library fails to verify the size of the destination buffers in the unpacking instructions, resulting in various possible heap and buffer overflows.
Impact :

An attacker can entice a user to load a specially crafted media file, resulting in a crash or possible execution of arbitrary code.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Audacious users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=media-sound/audacious-1.1.0'

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22142

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200607-13.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 8/4/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:audacious, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3581, CVE-2006-3582

GLSA: 200607-13

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