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Ubuntu: USN-2787-1 (CVE-2015-7747): audiofile vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-2787-1 (CVE-2015-7747): audiofile vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/28/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/09/2015
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Buffer overflow in the afReadFrames function in audiofile (aka libaudiofile and Audio File Library) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted audio file, as demonstrated by sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libaudiofile1

References

  • USN-2787-1
  • CVE-2015-7747

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