Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : flac vulnerability (USN-540-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 28208

Synopsis

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

Description

Sean de Regge discovered that flac did not properly perform bounds checking in many situations. An attacker could send a specially crafted FLAC audio file and execute arbitrary code as the user or cause a denial of service in flac or applications that link against flac.

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 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/540-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 28208

File Name: ubuntu_USN-540-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:flac, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflac%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflac%2b%2b5c2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflac%2b%2b6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflac-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflac-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflac7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflac8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liboggflac%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liboggflac%2b%2b2c2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liboggflac-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liboggflac3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xmms-flac, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4619

CWE: 189

USN: 540-1