audiofile vulnerabilities

22 March 2017

audiofile vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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.

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

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• 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