There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - In TagLib 1.11.1, the rebuildAggregateFrames function in id3v2framefactory.cpp has a pointer to cast
    vulnerability, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified
    other impact via a crafted audio file. (CVE-2017-12678)

  - The TagLib::Ogg::FLAC::File::scan function in oggflacfile.cpp in TagLib 1.11.1 allows remote attackers to
    cause information disclosure (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted audio file. (CVE-2018-11439)

Security fix for CVE-2017-12678

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In TagLib 1.11.1, the rebuildAggregateFrames function in id3v2framefactory.cpp has a pointer to cast     vulnerability, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted audio file. (CVE-2017-12678)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Fix for CVE-2017-12678

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

According to the versions of the taglib package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The TagLib::Ogg::FLAC::File::scan function in     oggflacfile.cpp in TagLib 1.11.1 allows remote     attackers to cause information disclosure (heap-based     buffer over-read) via a crafted audio     file.(CVE-2018-11439)

  - In TagLib 1.11.1, the rebuildAggregateFrames function     in id3v2framefactory.cpp has a pointer to cast     vulnerability, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted audio file.(CVE-2017-12678)

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

This update for taglib fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2017-12678: Denial of service vulnerability via     specially crafted ID3v2 data (boo#1052699)

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2772 advisory.

  - In TagLib 1.11.1, the rebuildAggregateFrames function in id3v2framefactory.cpp has a pointer to cast     vulnerability, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted audio file. (CVE-2017-12678)

  - The TagLib::Ogg::FLAC::File::scan function in oggflacfile.cpp in TagLib 1.11.1 allows remote attackers to     cause information disclosure (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted audio file. (CVE-2018-11439)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
427101	Alpine: multiple libtag packages, multiple taglib packages: security update to 1.11.1-r2	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	5/16/2025	7/2/2026	high
427101	Alpine: multiple libtag packages, multiple taglib packages: security update to 1.11.1-r2	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	5/16/2025	7/2/2026	high
400515	Alpine: multiple libtag packages, multiple taglib packages: security update to 1.11.1-r1 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	8/16/2023	7/2/2026	high
400515	Alpine: multiple libtag packages, multiple taglib packages: security update to 1.11.1-r1 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	8/16/2023	7/2/2026	high
105897	Fedora 27 : mingw-taglib (2017-67f13dd1e1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/15/2018	11/6/2025	high
220430	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-12678	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	7/24/2026	high
102892	Fedora 25 : taglib (2017-2317191f8a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/1/2017	11/24/2025	high
131635	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : taglib (EulerOS-SA-2019-2482)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	12/4/2019	4/8/2024	high
102557	openSUSE Security Update : taglib (openSUSE-2017-938)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/18/2017	11/26/2025	high
153810	Debian DLA-2772-1 : taglib - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	10/1/2021	11/29/2023	high
102770	Fedora 26 : taglib (2017-8d74f1c135)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	8/25/2017	11/25/2025	high

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