Debian DLA-99-1 : flac security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 82244
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security 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.CVE-2014-8962
heap-based buffer overflow in stream_decoder.c, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted .flac file.
CVE-2014-9028
stack-based buffer overflow in stream_decoder.c, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted .flac file.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/12/msg00002.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 82244
File Name: debian_DLA-99.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/26/2015
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, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac%2b%2b6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libflac8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028