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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : audiofile vulnerability (USN-912-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45079

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Audio File Library contained a heap-based buffer overflow. If a user or automated system processed a crafted WAV file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. The default compiler options for Ubuntu should reduce this vulnerability to a denial of service.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libaudiofile-dev, libaudiofile0 and / or libaudiofile0-dbg packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/912-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45079

File Name: ubuntu_USN-912-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/17/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaudiofile0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaudiofile-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaudiofile0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5824

BID: 33066

CWE: 119

USN: 912-1