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openSUSE 42.3: SUSE-SU-2018:3695-1 Moderate: audiofile Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A recent openSUSE patch addresses a significant buffer overflow vulnerability in audiofile, mitigating potential code execution risks from untrusted inputs.
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-12:Update update project.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow moderate severity 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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1375=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

audiofile-0.3.6-13.3.1

audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-13.3.1

audiofile-debugsource-0.3.6-13.3.1

audiofile-devel-0.3.6-13.3.1

audiofile-doc-0.3.6-13.3.1

libaudiofile1-0.3.6-13.3.1

libaudiofile1-debuginfo-0.3.6-13.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

audiofile-devel-32bit-0.3.6-13.3.1

libaudiofile1-32bit-0.3.6-13.3.1

libaudiofile1-debuginfo-32bit-0.3.6-13.3.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111586

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3694-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow moderate severity openSUSE audiofile

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