ArchLinux: 201710-11: lame: denial of service
Summary
A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability has been discovered in LAME 3.99.5 in the k_34_4 function in vbrquantize.c while handling a malformed file.
Resolution
Upgrade to 3.99.5-4.
# pacman -Syu "lame>=3.99.5-4"
The problem has been fixed upstream but no release is available yet.
References
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55889 https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/480/ https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-15018
Workaround
None.