USN-3306-1: libsndfile vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• libsndfile - Library for reading/writing audio files

Details

Agostino Sarubbo and Jakub Jirasek discovered that libsndfile incorrectly
handled certain malformed files. A remote attacker could use this issue to
cause libsndfile to crash, resulting in 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 17.04

• libsndfile1 - 1.0.27-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.10

• libsndfile1 - 1.0.25-10ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• libsndfile1 - 1.0.25-10ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• libsndfile1 - 1.0.25-7ubuntu2.2

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-7585
• CVE-2017-7586
• CVE-2017-7741
• CVE-2017-7742
• CVE-2017-8361
• CVE-2017-8362
• CVE-2017-8363
• CVE-2017-8365