Moderate: audiofile security update

Synopsis

Moderate: audiofile security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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 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

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.

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 Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1600367 - CVE-2018-13440 audiofile: NULL pointer dereference in ModuleState::setup() in modules/ModuleState.cpp allows for denial of service via crafted file
• BZ - 1631088 - CVE-2018-17095 audiofile: Heap-based buffer overflow in Expand3To4Module::run() when running sfconvert

CVEs

• CVE-2018-13440
• CVE-2018-17095

References

• 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