GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-338

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published September 14, 2017

It was discovered that a Heap-based Buffer Overflow in the psf_binheader_writef function in common.c in libsndfile through 1.0.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	libsndfile	0 (affected), 1.0.28-3.1.mga6 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	libsndfile	0 (affected), 1.0.25-9.4.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2017-12562

Transitive aliases

GHSA-52w2-9c5h-2xqj BDU:2018-00013 VVD-GENTOO-2017-627152 EUVD-2017-4134

References

Updated libsndfile packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated libsndfile packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated libsndfile packages fix security vulnerability

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