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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2015-605cd28f33 Critical: Audiofile Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
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Security fix for CVE-2015-7747

Summary

The Audio File library is an implementation of the Audio File Library

from SGI, which provides an API for accessing audio file formats like

AIFF/AIFF-C, WAVE, and NeXT/Sun .snd/.au files. This library is used

by the EsounD daemon.

Install audiofile if you are installing EsounD or you need an API for

any of the sound file formats it can handle.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-7747

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow security fix audiofile

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1269766 - CVE-2015-7747 audiofile: Buffer overflow when changing number of channels and sample format https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269766

Update Instructions

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

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Name: audiofile
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.3.6
Release: 9.fc23
URL: https://audiofile.68k.org/
Summary: Library for accessing various audio file formats

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security advisory fedora buffer overflow security fix audiofile

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