Debian DSA-1469-1 : flac - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 30061

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Sean de Regge and Greg Linares discovered multiple heap and stack based buffer overflows in FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the flac packages.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.1-5sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2-8.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1469

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 30061

File Name: debian_DSA-1469.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:flac, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4619, CVE-2007-6277

CWE: 119, 189

DSA: 1469