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Amazon Linux 2 : mpg123, --advisory ALAS2-2025-2997 (ALAS-2025-2997)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265077

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of mpg123 installed on the remote host is prior to 1.32.9-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2997 advisory.

 An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in mpg123 when handling crafted streams. When decoding PCM, the libmpg123 may write past the end of a heap-located buffer. Consequently, heap corruption may happen, and arbitrary code execution is not discarded. The complexity required to exploit this flaw is considered high as the payload must be validated by the MPEG decoder and the PCM synth before execution. Additionally, to successfully execute the attack, the user must scan through the stream, making web live stream content (such as web radios) a very unlikely attack vector. (CVE-2024-10573)

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.

Solution

Run 'yum update mpg123' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2997' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-2997.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2024-10573.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265077

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2997.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/16/2025

Updated: 9/16/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-10573

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mpg123-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mpg123-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mpg123, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mpg123-plugins-pulseaudio, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mpg123-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10573