USN-6518-1: AFFLIB vulnerability

28 November 2023

AFFLIB could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • afflib - Advanced Forensics Format Library

Details

Luis Rocha discovered that AFFLIB incorrectly handled certain input files.
If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially
crafted AFF image file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2018-8050)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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

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