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Debian DLA-1077-1 : faad2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102844

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Various security issues were discovered in faad2, a fast audio decoder, that would allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash due to memory failures or large CPU consumption) via a crafted mp4 file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.7-8+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your faad2 packages.

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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/08/msg00029.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/faad2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102844

File Name: debian_DLA-1077.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/31/2017

Updated: 11/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9257

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfaad2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:faad, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfaad-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:faad2-dbg

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9218, CVE-2017-9219, CVE-2017-9220, CVE-2017-9221, CVE-2017-9222, CVE-2017-9223, CVE-2017-9253, CVE-2017-9254, CVE-2017-9255, CVE-2017-9256, CVE-2017-9257