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Fedora 35: 2022-9abc12e456 Severe: Libsndfile Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patch for libsndfile mitigates heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Fedora. Upgrade immediately to ensure secure audio file management.
- fix CVE-2021-3246: a heap buffer overflow via crafted WAV file allows a arbitrary code execution

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-2021-3246: a heap buffer overflow via crafted WAV file allows a

arbitrary code execution

* Fri Jul 23 2021 Michal Hlavinka - 1.0.31-5

- a crafted wav file could cause heap buffer overflow that allowed an arbitrary code execution (#1984320)

* Thu Jul 22 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.31-4

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1984319 - CVE-2021-3246 libsndfile: Heap buffer overflow via crafted WAV file allows arbitrary code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1984319

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-8fef82e363' 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 34
Version: 1.0.31
Release: 5.fc34.fc34
Summary: Library for reading and writing sound files

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