Medium: audiofile

Issue Overview:

The audiofile Audio File Library 0.3.6 has a NULL pointer dereference bug in ModuleState::setup in modules/ModuleState.cpp, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted caf file, as demonstrated by sfconvert. (CVE-2018-13440)

An issue has been discovered in mpruett Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6. A heap-based buffer overflow in Expand3To4Module::run has occurred when running sfconvert. (CVE-2018-17095)

Affected Packages:

audiofile

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update audiofile to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    audiofile-0.3.6-9.amzn2.aarch64  
    audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.amzn2.aarch64  
    audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    audiofile-0.3.6-9.amzn2.i686  
    audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.amzn2.i686  
    audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.amzn2.i686  
  
src:  
    audiofile-0.3.6-9.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    audiofile-0.3.6-9.amzn2.x86_64  
    audiofile-devel-0.3.6-9.amzn2.x86_64  
    audiofile-debuginfo-0.3.6-9.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-13440, CVE-2018-17095

Mitre: CVE-2018-13440, CVE-2018-17095