Debian DSA-3082-1 : flac - security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 79636
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.Description
Michele Spagnuolo, of Google Security Team, and Miroslav Lichvar, of Red Hat, discovered two issues in flac, a library handling Free Lossless Audio Codec media: by providing a specially crafted FLAC file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code.Solution
Upgrade the flac packages.For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.1-6+deb7u1.
See Also
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770918
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 79636
File Name: debian_DSA-3082.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 12/1/2014
Updated: 1/11/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.5
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:flac, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028
DSA: 3082