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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-13440) ELSA-2020-3877: audiofile security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-13440) ELSA-2020-3877: audiofile security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/08/2018
Created
10/09/2020
Added
10/07/2020
Modified
10/07/2020

Description

The audiofile Audio File Library 0.3.6 has a NULL pointer dereference bug in ModuleState::setup in modules/ModuleState.cpp, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted caf file, as demonstrated by sfconvert.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-audiofile
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-audiofile-devel

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