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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-71b291686c
2015-12-20 04:11:41.366648
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Name        : libsndfile
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 1.0.25
Release     : 18.fc23
URL         : http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
Summary     : Library for reading and writing sound files
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

fix CVE-2015-7805 libsndfile: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially
crafted AIFF header
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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
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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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Fedora 23: libsndfile Security Update

December 20, 2015
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

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 .

Severity
Name : libsndfile
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 1.0.25
Release : 18.fc23
URL : http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
Summary : Library for reading and writing sound files

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