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Debian 10 Buster DLA-3650-1 Critical Audiofile Integer Overflow

debian lts
Calendar Grey November 12, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3651-1 highlights significant weaknesses in the graphics library, urging users to apply suggested security patches.
The audiofile library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun, BICS, and raw data)
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Summary

CVE-2019-13147

Audiofile was vulnerable due to an integer overflow.
Bail out early if NeXT audio files include too many channels.

CVE-2022-24599

A memory leak was found due to reading not null
terminated copyright field. Preallocate zeroed memory and
always NUL terminates C strings.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version
0.3.6-5+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your audiofile packages.

For the detailed security status of audiofile please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/audiofile

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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Package: audiofile
Version: 0.3.6-5+deb10u1
CVE ID: CVE-2019-13147 CVE-2022-24599
Debian Bug: 931343 1008017

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