Advisories

Mandriva Advisories

Package name libsndfile Date October 1st, 2007 Advisory ID MDKSA-2007:191 Affected versions 2007.0, 2007.1 Synopsis Updated libsndfile packages fix vulnerability

Problem Description

A heap-based buffer overflow in libsndfile could allow remote attackers
to execute arbitrary code via a FLAC file with crafted PCM data which
contains a block with a size exceeding that of the previous block.

Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2007

 24100ae70e6966132dd2df9c1b232888  2007.0/i586/libsndfile-progs-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 c5c705acb80947a1eb97755a1327e83c  2007.0/i586/libsndfile1-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 5958c9bb24d22926f68f7f92ee2571c9  2007.0/i586/libsndfile1-devel-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 71dfb4edb740b99a32667606048b055b  2007.0/i586/libsndfile1-static-devel-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm 
 5f738e2181c2e32c75bc0213a8c28c0d  2007.0/SRPMS/libsndfile-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64

 0e642cd6090fe922f058b246c93efcd8  2007.0/x86_64/lib64sndfile1-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 23841c5fb2828c9205488b1c6755cbea  2007.0/x86_64/lib64sndfile1-devel-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 7836510356ed0f325ff23dbc329005a1  2007.0/x86_64/lib64sndfile1-static-devel-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 98f6ed8e57c9fd0f1f9dd377ad766813  2007.0/x86_64/libsndfile-progs-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm 
 5f738e2181c2e32c75bc0213a8c28c0d  2007.0/SRPMS/libsndfile-1.0.17-2.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1

 04da55eb81107b358e3309d8dd82264b  2007.1/i586/libsndfile-progs-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 f26b54c27ca835daf206fbfe43f4129e  2007.1/i586/libsndfile1-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 2d10c1398d7fde98919a7c181fae5db3  2007.1/i586/libsndfile1-devel-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 58eb5002ea5e1a1a2331018addcf83fd  2007.1/i586/libsndfile1-static-devel-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm 
 50e0901b2142c229a8c0564feb1bb550  2007.1/SRPMS/libsndfile-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64

 7ade2e35ca8c79740df74248fe15d83f  2007.1/x86_64/lib64sndfile1-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 0d3a26b5f9b92029d35760cee29847a4  2007.1/x86_64/lib64sndfile1-devel-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 d5dc6aae1605789598b9d7c7c4910dab  2007.1/x86_64/lib64sndfile1-static-devel-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 4476ecc80e248574f4a1af631024ddfd  2007.1/x86_64/libsndfile-progs-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 
 50e0901b2142c229a8c0564feb1bb550  2007.1/SRPMS/libsndfile-1.0.17-5.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4974

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