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Fedora 22 libsndfile Security Advisory: Heap Overflow Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Resolution for the libsndfile memory overflow vulnerability on Fedora 22 tackles CVE-2015-7805 and enhances overall system protection.
fix CVE-2015-7805 libsndfile: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially crafted AIFF header

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:

fix CVE-2015-7805 libsndfile: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially crafted AIFF header

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix update information heap overflow threat mitigation libsndfile

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1277915 - CVE-2015-8075 libsndfile: Out of bounds memory access in psf_strlcpy_crlf https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277915

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 22
Version: 1.0.25
Release: 18.fc22
URL: http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
Summary: Library for reading and writing sound files

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix update information heap overflow threat mitigation libsndfile

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