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Fedora 21: 2015-11-23 Moderate: Libsndfile Heap Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2015
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Debian 11 libjpeg-turbo encountered a critical patch addressing a buffer overflow vulnerability. Update today for enhanced security.
libsndfile-1.0.25-17.fc22 - fix CVE-2015-7805: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially crafted AIFF header libsndfile-1.0.25-16.fc21 - fix CVE-2015-7805: Heap overflow...

Summary

libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing sound files such as

AIFF, AU, WAV, and others through one standard interface. It can

currently read/write 8, 16, 24 and 32-bit PCM files as well as 32 and

64-bit floating point WAV files and a number of compressed formats. It

compiles and runs on *nix, MacOS, and Win32.

Update Information:

libsndfile-1.0.25-17.fc22 - fix CVE-2015-7805: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially crafted AIFF header libsndfile-1.0.25-16.fc21 - fix CVE-2015-7805: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially crafted AIFF header libsndfile-1.0.25-17.fc23 - fix CVE-2015-7805: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially crafted AIFF header

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora heap overflow threat update libsndfile

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1277897 - CVE-2015-7805 libsndfile: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially crafted AIFF header https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277897

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libsndfile' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: libsndfile
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.0.25
Release: 16.fc21
URL: http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
Summary: Library for reading and writing sound files

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora heap overflow threat update libsndfile

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