Advisories » MGASA-2017-0197

Updated libsndfile packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Jun 2017
Modification date: 29 Jun 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-6892

Description

In libsndfile, an error in the "aiff_read_chanmap()" function (aiff.c)
can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds read memory access via a
specially crafted AIFF file (CVE-2017-6892).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21138
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DPGQ7ITAOX2UX7RHZ7RWVB3N5YVUKWOP/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6892

SRPMS

5/core

• libsndfile-1.0.25-9.3.mga5