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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : sox (EulerOS-SA-2018-1084)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109482

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the sox package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter SoX can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions, including sound effects.

 - Security fix(es):

 - A NULL pointer dereference flaw found in the way SoX handled processing of AIFF files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the SoX application by tricking it into processing crafted AIFF files.(CVE-2017-18189)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected sox packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c495cf3a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109482

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1084.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Published: 5/2/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sox, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18189