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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-17095: Security patch for audiofile (ALAS-2020-1501)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-17095: Security patch for audiofile (ALAS-2020-1501)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/16/2018
Created
10/28/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

An issue has been discovered in mpruett Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6, 0.3.5, 0.3.4, 0.3.3, 0.3.2, 0.3.1, 0.3.0. A heap-based buffer overflow in Expand3To4Module::run has occurred when running sfconvert.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-audiofile
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-audiofile-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-audiofile-devel

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