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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:3537-1 Moderate Audiofile Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This release tackles a notable hazard linked to a stack overflow in the library handling audio files, particularly for openSUSE Leap 15.0.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for audiofile fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-17095: A heap-based buffer overflow in Expand3To4Module::run

could occurred when running sfconvert leading to crashes or code

execution when handling untrusted soundfiles (bsc#1111586).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow patch openSUSE audiofile

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1325=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

audiofile-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

audiofile-debugsource-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

audiofile-devel-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

audiofile-doc-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

libaudiofile1-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

libaudiofile1-debuginfo-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

audiofile-devel-32bit-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

libaudiofile1-32bit-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

libaudiofile1-32bit-debuginfo-0.3.6-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17095.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111586

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3537-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow patch openSUSE audiofile

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