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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2020-3877-01 Moderate: Audiofile Issues

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A crucial patch for audiofile in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 aimed at mitigating significant vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow issues.
An update for audiofile is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The Audio File library is an implementation of the Audio File Library from SGI, which provides an API for accessing audio file formats like AIFF/AIFF-C, WAVE, and NeXT/Sun .snd/.au files.
Security Fix(es):
* audiofile: Heap-based buffer overflow in Expand3To4Module::run() when running sfconvert (CVE-2018-17095)
* audiofile: NULL pointer dereference in ModuleState::setup() in modules/ModuleState.cpp allows for denial of service via crafted file (CVE-2018-13440)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux audiofile

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13440 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17095 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
Source: audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.i686.rpm audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.x86_64.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.i686.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.x86_64.rpm audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.el7.i686.rpm audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.i686.rpm audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.x86_64.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.i686.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.x86_64.rpm audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.el7.i686.rpm audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc.rpm audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc64.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc64.rpm audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc.rpm audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.s390.rpm audiofile-0.3.6-9.el7.s390x.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.s390.rpm audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.el7.s390x.rpm audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.el7.s390.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3877-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3877
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for audiofile is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux audiofile

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1600367 - CVE-2018-13440 audiofile: NULL pointer dereference in ModuleState::setup() in modules/ModuleState.cpp allows for denial of service via crafted file

1631088 - CVE-2018-17095 audiofile: Heap-based buffer overflow in Expand3To4Module::run() when running sfconvert

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