Moderate: libsndfile security update

Synopsis

Moderate: libsndfile security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for libsndfile is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound, such as AIFF, AU, or WAV.

Security Fix(es):

• libsndfile: stack-based buffer overflow in sndfile-deinterleave utility (CVE-2018-13139)
  
• libsndfile: buffer over-read in the function i2alaw_array in alaw.c (CVE-2018-19662)
  

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 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1598480 - CVE-2018-13139 libsndfile: stack-based buffer overflow in sndfile-deinterleave utility
• BZ - 1659631 - CVE-2018-19662 libsndfile: buffer over-read in the function i2alaw_array in alaw.c

CVEs

• CVE-2018-13139
• CVE-2018-19662

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index