PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-03-14
Candidate: CVE-2017-6830
PublicDate: 2017-03-20 16:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6830
 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/20/audiofile-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-alaw2linear_buf-g711-cpp
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3241-1
Description:
 Heap-based buffer overflow in the alaw2linear_buf function in G711.cpp in
 Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a
 denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> not mentioned in Debian changelog, but is fixed in 0.3.6-4
Bugs:
 https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues/34
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857651
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/+bug/1674005
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Agostino Sarubbo
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.5 MEDIUM]

Patches_audiofile:
 upstream: https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/commit/7d65f89defb092b63bcbc5d98349fb222ca73b3c
 upstream: https://github.com/antlarr/audiofile/commit/ce536d707b8e2a26baca77320398c45238224ca7
upstream_audiofile: released (0.3.6-4)
precise_audiofile: released (0.3.3-2ubuntu0.3)
trusty_audiofile: released (0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.2)
trusty/esm_audiofile: released (0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.2)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_audiofile: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_audiofile: DNE
xenial_audiofile: released (0.3.6-2ubuntu0.16.04.1)
yakkety_audiofile: released (0.3.6-3ubuntu0.1)
devel_audiofile: not-affected (0.3.6-4)