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openSUSE: 2017:3016-1 Important: Snack Heap Overflow DoS

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Urgent Fedora patch resolves stack-based memory corruption in munch, mitigating risks of service disruption incidents.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for snack fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2012-6303: Heap-based buffer overflow in the GetWavHeader function

in generic/jkSoundFile.c in the Snack Sound Toolkit, as used in

WaveSurfer 1.8.8p4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service

(crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large chunk size in a

WAV file. (bnc#793860)

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1277=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1277=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

snack-2.2.10-220.1

snack-debuginfo-2.2.10-220.1

snack-debugsource-2.2.10-220.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

snack-2.2.10-217.3.1

snack-debuginfo-2.2.10-217.3.1

snack-debugsource-2.2.10-217.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6303.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/793860

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:3016-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 42.2 .

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