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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: USN-3241-1 Critical: Audiofile Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey March 22, 2017
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Serious flaws in the audio library may trigger system failures or allow unauthorized code execution on Ubuntu environments. Ensure your system is updated immediately!
audiofile could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

audiofile could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially

crafted file.

Software Description:

- audiofile: Open-source version of the SGI audiofile library

Details:

Agostino Sarubbo discovered that audiofile incorrectly handled certain

malformed audio files. If a user or automated system were tricked into

processing a specially crafted audio file, a remote attacker could cause

applications linked against audiofile to crash, leading to a denial of

service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue ubuntu audiofile

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libaudiofile1                   0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libaudiofile1                   0.3.3-2ubuntu0.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3241-1

CVE-2017-6827, CVE-2017-6828, CVE-2017-6829, CVE-2017-6830,

CVE-2017-6831, CVE-2017-6832, CVE-2017-6833, CVE-2017-6834,

CVE-2017-6835, CVE-2017-6836, CVE-2017-6837, CVE-2017-6838,

CVE-2017-6839

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March 22, 2017

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security advisory denial of service critical issue ubuntu audiofile

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/0.3.3-2ubuntu0.3

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