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Fedora 22 Security Update: Critical Oggenc Buffer Overflow CVE-2015-14663

- oggenc: fix large alloca on bad AIFF input (CVE-2015-6749). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-14663 2015-09-16 18:49:29.742453 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : vorbis-tools Product : Fedora 22 Version : 1.4.0 Release : 20.fc22 URL : https://www.xiph.org/ Summary : The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec tools Description : Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent- and royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. The vorbis package contains an encoder, a decoder, a playback tool, and a comment editor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - oggenc: fix large alloca on bad AIFF input (CVE-2015-6749) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1258424 - vorbis-tools: Bufer overflow in aiff_open function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258424 [ 2 ] Bug #1258443 - CVE-2015-6749 vorbis-tools: invalid AIFF file causes alloca() buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258443 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update vorbis-tools' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . CrucialFedora 22 vorbis-tools patch tackles buffer overflow vulnerability linked to malformed AIFF files. Full information below.. vorbis-tools security, Fedora update, buffer overflow fix, oggenc security, AIFF input issue. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Sep 16, 2015 •Critical Fedora