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Debian DLA-867-1 : audiofile security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97921

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found in audiofile.

CVE-2017-6829

Allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

CVE-2017-6830, CVE-2017-6834, CVE-2017-6831, CVE-2017-6832, CVE-2017-6838, CVE-2017-6839, CVE-2017-6836

Heap-based buffer overflow in that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

CVE-2017-6833, CVE-2017-6835

The runPull function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and crash) via a crafted file.

CVE-2017-6837

Allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to a large number of coefficients.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.4-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your audiofile packages.

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/2017/03/msg00024.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/audiofile

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97921

File Name: debian_DLA-867.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2017

Updated: 12/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-6839

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libaudiofile-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libaudiofile-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:audiofile-tools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libaudiofile1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6829, CVE-2017-6830, CVE-2017-6831, CVE-2017-6832, CVE-2017-6833, CVE-2017-6834, CVE-2017-6835, CVE-2017-6836, CVE-2017-6837, CVE-2017-6838, CVE-2017-6839