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RHEL 9 : wavpack (RHSA-2022:8139)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167641

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8139 advisory.

 - wavpack: Heap out-of-bounds read in WavpackPackSamples() (CVE-2021-44269)

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

Solution

Update the affected wavpack and / or wavpack-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44269

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8139

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2064457

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167641

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8139.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2022

Updated: 10/3/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44269

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:9.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wavpack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:wavpack-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44269

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2022:8139