A buffer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the ogg123 utility from the vorbis-tools 1.4.3 package in function remotethread in remote.c. This vulnerability occurs in the remote control functionality when processing malformed input, leading to a stack buffer underflow that can cause application crashes and potentially allow code execution.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-cbf4cd18d1 advisory.

    CVE-2026-34253 - fix arbitrary code execution via buffer underflow

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

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

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-884a9f0fc3 advisory.

    CVE-2026-34253 - fix arbitrary code execution via buffer underflow

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

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

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-9c00940406 advisory.

    Automatic update for vorbis-tools-1.4.3-5.fc45.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Tue Jun  9 2026 Luk Zaoral <lzaoral@redhat.com> - 1:1.4.3-5
    - CVE-2026-34253 - fix arbitrary code execution via buffer underflow (rhbz#2479549)

    ```

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

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

The version of vorbis-tools installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.0-13. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2026-3349 advisory.

    A buffer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the ogg123 utility from the vorbis-tools 1.4.3     package in function remotethread in remote.c. This vulnerability occurs in the remote control     functionality when processing malformed input, leading to a stack buffer underflow that can cause     application crashes and potentially allow code execution. (CVE-2026-34253)

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

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

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1812 advisory.

    A buffer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the ogg123 utility from the vorbis-tools 1.4.3     package in function remotethread in remote.c. This vulnerability occurs in the remote control     functionality when processing malformed input, leading to a stack buffer underflow that can cause     application crashes and potentially allow code execution. (CVE-2026-34253)

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

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

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2026:0408 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2026-34253:
    A buffer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the ogg123 utility from the vorbis-tools 1.4.3     package in function remotethread in remote.c. This vulnerability occurs in the remote control     functionality when processing malformed input, leading to a stack buffer underflow that can cause     application crashes and potentially allow code execution.

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

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A buffer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the ogg123 utility from the vorbis-tools 1.4.3     package in function remotethread in remote.c. This vulnerability occurs in the remote control     functionality when processing malformed input, leading to a stack buffer underflow that can cause     application crashes and potentially allow code execution. (CVE-2026-34253)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
321734	Fedora 43 : vorbis-tools (2026-cbf4cd18d1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
321438	Fedora 44 : vorbis-tools (2026-884a9f0fc3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
320026	Fedora 45 : vorbis-tools (2026-9c00940406)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
319775	Amazon Linux 2 : vorbis-tools, --advisory ALAS2-2026-3349 (ALAS-2026-3349)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
319774	Amazon Linux 2023 : vorbis-tools (ALAS2023-2026-1812)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
319752	TencentOS Server 4: vorbis-tools (TSSA-2026:0408)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
315102	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-34253	Nessus	Misc.	high

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