Bug 1609193 (CVE-2018-1000223)

Summary: CVE-2018-1000223 soundtouch: Heap-based buffer overflow in SoundStretch/WavFile.cpp:WavInFile::readHeaderBlock() potentially leading to code execution
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dtimms, hdegoede, otte
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SoundStretch command-line utility packaged with SoundTouch library is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow in WavFile.cpp:WavInFile::readHeaderBlock() function that can lead to arbitrary code execution when processing untrusted file input.
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Bug Depends On: 1609194, 1609195, 1609196, 1609754    
Bug Blocks: 1601622    

Description Adam Mariš 2018-07-27 09:12:42 UTC
WavInFile::readHeaderBlock() function in SoundStretch/WavFile.cpp is vulnerable to heap buffer overflow that can lead to arbitrary code execution when processing malicious file. This issue does affect only SoundStretch utility, not SoundTouch library.

Upstream issue:

https://gitlab.com/soundtouch/soundtouch/issues/6

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-07-27 09:13:13 UTC
Created soundtouch tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1609195]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1609194]