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Fedora 25 Libsndfile Security Update: Critical Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade Fedora's libsndfile to version 1.0.28 to mitigate severe buffer overflow vulnerabilities occurring during audio file parsing, ensuring improved security and stability.
* updated to 1.0.28 * fixes possible buffer overflow when parsing crafted ID3 tags (#1440758, CVE-2017-7586) * fixes possible buffer overflow when parsing crafted flac file (#14407...

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.

* updated to 1.0.28 * fixes possible buffer overflow when parsing crafted ID3

tags (#1440758, CVE-2017-7586) * fixes possible buffer overflow when parsing

crafted flac file (#1440756, CVE-2017-7585)

[ 1 ] Bug #1440756 - CVE-2017-7585 libsndfile: Stack-based buffer overflow in flac_buffer_copy()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440756

[ 2 ] Bug #1440758 - CVE-2017-7586 libsndfile: Error in header_read() causing stack-based buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440758

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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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.0.28
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Library for reading and writing sound files

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