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RockyLinux 9 : flac (RLSA-2023:5048)

high Nessus Plugin ID 322759

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:5048 advisory.

 * flac: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the bitwriter_grow_ function, by supplying crafted input to the encoder (CVE-2020-22219)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2235489

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:5048

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 322759

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-5048.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 6/25/2026

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-22219

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:flac-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:flac-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:flac-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:flac, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:flac-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:flac-libs, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-22219