ALAS2-2023-1997

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-24599  

In autofile Audio File Library 0.3.6, there exists one memory leak vulnerability in printfileinfo, in printinfo.c, which allows an attacker to leak sensitive information via a crafted file. The printfileinfo function calls the copyrightstring function to get data, however, it dosn't use zero bytes to truncate the data. (CVE-2022-24599)

ALAS2-2023-1997


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1997
Advisory Release Date: 2023-03-17 16:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-03-21 23:25 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

In autofile Audio File Library 0.3.6, there exists one memory leak vulnerability in printfileinfo, in printinfo.c, which allows an attacker to leak sensitive information via a crafted file. The printfileinfo function calls the copyrightstring function to get data, however, it dosn't use zero bytes to truncate the data. (CVE-2022-24599)


Affected Packages:

audiofile


Issue Correction:
Run yum update audiofile to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    audiofile-0.3.6-10.amzn2.aarch64
    audiofile-devel-0.3.6-10.amzn2.aarch64
    audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-10.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    audiofile-0.3.6-10.amzn2.i686
    audiofile-devel-0.3.6-10.amzn2.i686
    audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-10.amzn2.i686

src:
    audiofile-0.3.6-10.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    audiofile-0.3.6-10.amzn2.x86_64
    audiofile-devel-0.3.6-10.amzn2.x86_64
    audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-10.amzn2.x86_64