Integer overflow in audiofile - CVE-2017-6838

 

Integer overflow in audiofile - CVE-2017-6838

Published: March 20, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU39424
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6838
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Integer overflow in sfcommands/sfconvert.c in Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.


Affected software

audiofile
Arch Linux
openEuler
audiofile
audiofile-debuginfo
audiofile-devel
audiofile-debugsource
audiofile-help

How to mitigate CVE-2017-6838

Install update from vendor's website.

audiofile - update to 0.3.6-25
audiofile-debuginfo - update to 0.3.6-25
audiofile-devel - update to 0.3.6-25
audiofile-debugsource - update to 0.3.6-25
audiofile-help - update to 0.3.6-25

External References

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