vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3241-1 (CVE-2017-6834): audiofile vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 20, 2017
Added
Mar 23, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ulaw2linear_buf function in G711.cpp in 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, 0.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libaudiofile1
Title
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