Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 684
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 684

Debian 7: DLA-928-1 Moderate: libsndfile Buffer Overflow Threat

debian lts
Calendar Grey April 29, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Several vulnerabilities addressed in the libsndfile package on Debian by updating to version 1.0.25-9.1+deb7u1.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libsndfile, a popular library for reading/writing audio files

Summary

In libsndfile before 1.0.28, an error in the "flac_buffer_copy()"
function (flac.c) can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer
overflow via a specially crafted FLAC file.

CVE-2017-7586

In libsndfile before 1.0.28, an error in the "header_read()"
function (common.c) when handling ID3 tags can be exploited to
cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted FLAC
file.

CVE-2017-7741

In libsndfile before 1.0.28, an error in the "flac_buffer_copy()"
function (flac.c) can be exploited to cause a segmentation
violation (with write memory access) via a specially crafted FLAC
file during a resample attempt, a similar issue to CVE-2017-7585.

CVE-2017-7742

In libsndfile before 1.0.28, an error in the "flac_buffer_copy()"
function (flac.c) can be exploited to cause a segmentation
violation (with read memory access) via a specially crafted FLAC
file during a resample attempt, a similar issue to
CVE-2017-7585.

CVE-2014-9496

Read the Full Advisory


<pre><font face="Courier">Package: libsndfile
Version: 1.0.25-9.1+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2015-7805 CVE-2017-7585 CVE-2017-7586 CVE-2017-7741
Debian Bug: 860255

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Related News

Your message here