Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-39043

high Nessus Plugin ID 321201

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- Heap buffer overflow in the Matroska (MKV) demuxer when calculating decompressed buffer sizes for bz2-compressed tracks. The issue occurs due to missing parentheses in the buffer size calculation, causing incorrect memory allocation and potential out-of-bounds writes. (from https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0022.html) (CVE-2026-39043) An integer overflow in the WAV parser (wavparse) when handling malformed WAV files with cue chunks. The vulnerability occurs during buffer size validation when calculating the expected size for cue entries (ncues * 24), where insufficient bounds checking allows integer overflow during the multiplication operation. (from https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0021.html) (CVE-2026-39044) A flaw was found in GStreamer's WavPack audio decoder in gst-plugins-good. When processing a specially crafted WavPack file, an integer overflow in the buffer size calculation (4 * block_samples * channels) in gst_wavpack_dec_handle_frame() causes a very small heap allocation. The WavPack library then writes decoded audio samples far beyond the allocated buffer, resulting in heap memory corruption. This affects both 32-bit and 64-bit systems since the arithmetic is performed in 32-bit integers before promotion to the allocation size type. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash an application or potentially execute arbitrary code by convincing a user to open a malicious WavPack audio file. (CVE-2026-53705) (CVE-2026-39043)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 321201

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_39043.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 6/16/2026

Updated: 7/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.96

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-39043

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gst-plugins-good1.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gst-plugins-good1.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-39043

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