Gentoo GLSA-202310-15 Critical: Libsndfile Buffer Overflow Exploit
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October 7, 2007
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in libsndfile.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-04
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: libsndfile: Buffer overflow
Date: October 07, 2007
Bugs: #192834
ID: 200710-04
Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in libsndfile.
Background
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libsndfile is a library for reading and writing various formats of
audio files including WAV and FLAC.
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1 media-libs/libsndfile < 1.0.17-r1 >= 1.0.17-r1
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Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security team discovered that the
flac_buffer_copy() function does not correctly handle FLAC streams with
variable block sizes which leads to a heap-bas...
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