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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2023-47d4f575a3 Moderate Audiofile Memory Leak Fix

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Calendar Grey November 22, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important notice for audiofile users in Fedora 39 regarding significant memory leak fix. Please apply the patch for CVE-2022-24599 immediately.
Patch for CVE-2022-24599

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:

Patch for CVE-2022-24599

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora software patch memory leak audio library

Change Log

* Mon Nov 13 2023 Gwyn Ciesla - 1:0.3.6-36 Patch for CVE-2022-24599

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2058373 - CVE-2022-24599 audiofile: memory leak in printinfo.c [epel-8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2058373

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-47d4f575a3' 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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Name: audiofile
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 0.3.6
Release: 36.fc39
URL: https://audiofile.68k.org/
Summary: Library for accessing various audio file formats

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora software patch memory leak audio library

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