Mediainfo before version 20.08 has a heap buffer overflow vulnerability via MediaInfoLib::File_Gxf::ChooseParser_ChannelGrouping.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5237-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that MediaInfoLib incorrectly handled certain specially crafted files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-26797)

    It was discovered that MediaInfoLib incorrectly handled certain specially crafted MpegPs files. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04     ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-15395)

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

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

The remote Fedora 33 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-3b67623d93 advisory.

  - Mediainfo before version 20.08 has a heap buffer overflow vulnerability via     MediaInfoLib::File_Gxf::ChooseParser_ChannelGrouping. (CVE-2020-26797)

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

It was discovered that there were a number of vulnerabilities in libmediainfo, a library reading metadata such as track names, lengths, etc. from media files.

For Debian 9 'Stretch', these problems have been fixed in version 0.7.91-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmediainfo packages.

For the detailed security status of libmediainfo please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libmediainfo

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
183173	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : MediaInfoLib vulnerabilities (USN-5237-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
148790	Fedora 33 : libmediainfo / libzen / mediaconch / mediainfo (2021-3b67623d93)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
148072	Debian DLA-2603-1 : libmediainfo security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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