USN-4033-1: libmysofa vulnerability

24 June 2019

libmysofa could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

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Releases

Packages

  • libmysofa - library to read HRTFs stored in the AES69-2015 SOFA format

Details

It was discovered that a libmysofa component does not properly validate
multiplications and additions, and may crash with some specific input.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.10
Ubuntu 18.04

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

References