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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2787-1
October 28, 2015
audiofile vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 15.10
– Ubuntu 15.04
– Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary:
audiofile could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted file.
Software Description:
– audiofile: Open-source version of the SGI audiofile library
Details:
Fabrizio Gennari discovered that audiofile incorrectly handled changing
both the sample format and the number of channels. If a user or automated
system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, audiofile
could be made to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 15.10:
libaudiofile1 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.15.10.1
Ubuntu 15.04:
libaudiofile1 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.15.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libaudiofile1 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libaudiofile1 0.3.3-2ubuntu0.1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2787-1
CVE-2015-7747
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/0.3.6-2ubuntu0.15.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/0.3.6-2ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/0.3.3-2ubuntu0.1
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