USN-2787-1: audiofile vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• 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

• libaudiofile1 - 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• libaudiofile1 - 0.3.3-2ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2015-7747