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Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : amarok vulnerabilities (USN-739-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 37607

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that Amarok did not correctly handle certain malformed tags in Audible Audio (.aa) files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted Audible Audio file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/739-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 37607

File Name: ubuntu_USN-739-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amarok, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amarok-engines, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amarok-xine, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amarok-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amarok-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amarok-engine-xine, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amarok-engine-yauap

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0135, CVE-2009-0136

BID: 33210

CWE: 119, 189

USN: 739-1