Bug 1277941

Summary:	CVE-2014-9756 libsndfile: Divide-by-zero in psf_fwrite
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	andreas, mhlavink
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1178842, 1178843, 1277942, 1277943
Bug Blocks:	1277910

Description Adam Mariš 2015-11-04 11:52:02 UTC

A division by zero occurs in aiff.c in aiff_rewrite_header. headIndex is initialized to zero and if all the conditions for modifying it fail, it will be used in division in psf_fwrite, resulting in crash.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/725c7dbb95bfaf8b4bb7b04820e3a00cceea9ce6#diff-4b3e9c7e86f66ff8285771969745e133

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/218

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-11-04 11:52:28 UTC

Created libsndfile tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1277942]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1277943]

Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2015-11-06 12:03:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1177254 ***