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Fedora 26: 2018-3bf82e17ea High: Libsndfile Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

fedora
Calendar Grey July 12, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 25 addressing potential libsndfile vulnerabilities. Safeguard your system's integrity by applying this update promptly.
fix CVE-2017-6892

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.

fix CVE-2017-6892

[ 1 ] Bug #1463326 - CVE-2017-6892 libsndfile: Information disclosure via aiff_read_chanmap() function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463326

su -c 'dnf upgrade libsndfile' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.0.28
Release: 3.fc25
Summary: Library for reading and writing sound files

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