An update for sox is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, addressing a low impact security issue and including a NULL pointer dereference fix
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 47 |
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![]() | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : sox Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0203) | 15 Oct 201900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Scientific Linux Security Update : sox on SL7.x x86_64 (20190806) | 27 Aug 201900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Amazon Linux 2 : sox (ALAS-2019-1352) | 7 Nov 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 |
![]() | 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 |
Source | Link |
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nessus | www.nessus.org/u |
cve | www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi |
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:2283 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2019:2283 respectively.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(128383);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/30");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-18189");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2019:2283");
script_name(english:"CentOS 7 : sox (CESA-2019:2283)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update for sox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.
SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter. SoX can convert
between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple
sound manipulation functions, including sound effects.
Security Fix(es) :
* sox: NULL pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c
(CVE-2017-18189)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a
CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to
the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes :
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.");
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2019-August/006140.html
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ce98de3d");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected sox packages.");
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:"2019/08/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/08/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sox");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sox-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CentOS 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/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/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/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 7.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"sox-14.4.1-7.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"sox-devel-14.4.1-7.el7")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
cr_plugin_caveat = '\n' +
'NOTE: The security advisory associated with this vulnerability has a\n' +
'fixed package version that may only be available in the continuous\n' +
'release (CR) repository for CentOS, until it is present in the next\n' +
'point release of CentOS.\n\n' +
'If an equal or higher package level does not exist in the baseline\n' +
'repository for your major version of CentOS, then updates from the CR\n' +
'repository will need to be applied in order to address the\n' +
'vulnerability.\n';
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get() + cr_plugin_caveat
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "sox / sox-devel");
}
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