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Mageia 9: MGASA-2023-0347 critical: audiofile DoS vulnerability update

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised multimedia bundles resolve a significant vulnerability in Mageia editions, affecting the security of audio handling.
2 patches are added to audiofile source to correct a vulnerability

Summary

2 patches are added to audiofile source to correct a vulnerability. In Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6, there exists one NULL pointer dereference bug in ulaw2linear_buf in G711.cpp in libmodules.a that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. (CVE-2019-13147)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32608

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13147

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update critical patch audiofile Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/audiofile-0.3.6-14.mga9

Severity
critical
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Publication date: 15 Dec 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0347.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-13147

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update critical patch audiofile Mageia

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