The Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update due to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in SoX when processing AIFF files (CVE-2017-18189)
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 47 |
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![]() | Scientific Linux Security Update : sox on SL7.x x86_64 (20190806) | 27 Aug 201900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : sox Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0203) | 15 Oct 201900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : sox (EulerOS-SA-2018-1084) | 2 May 201800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : sox Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0251) | 31 Dec 201900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 31 : sox (2020-1dfaa1963b) | 3 Feb 202000:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 30 : sox (2020-cb7b7181a0) | 10 Feb 202000:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Oracle Linux 7 : sox (ELSA-2019-2283) | 7 Sep 202300:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CentOS 7 : sox (CESA-2019:2283) | 30 Aug 201900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : sox (EulerOS-SA-2018-1083) | 2 May 201800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 7 : sox (RHSA-2019:2283) | 12 Aug 201900:00 | – | nessus |
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1352.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(130604);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/15");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-18189");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2019-1352");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : sox (ALAS-2019-1352)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"A NULL pointer dereference flaw found in the way SoX handled
processing of AIFF files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw
to crash the SoX application by tricking it into processing crafted
AIFF files.(CVE-2017-18189)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2019-1352.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update sox' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-18189");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/02/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/11/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/11/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"sox-14.4.1-7.amzn2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.amzn2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"sox-devel-14.4.1-7.amzn2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "sox / sox-debuginfo / sox-devel");
}
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