Bug 1277897 (CVE-2015-7805) - CVE-2015-7805 libsndfile: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially crafted AIFF header
Summary: CVE-2015-7805 libsndfile: Heap overflow vulnerability when parsing specially ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-7805
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1277899 1277900 1277901 1277902 1277903 1277904 1277905 1277906
Blocks: 1277910
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Reported: 2015-11-04 10:23 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-11-27 12:03:30 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-11-04 10:23:11 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in libsndfile. Vulnerability is based on the wrong management of the headindex and headend values. While parsing a specially crafted AIFF header, the attacker can manage index values in order to use memcpy(...) to overwrite memory heap. Affected versions are <= 1.0.25.

Reproducer:

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133926/libsndfile-1.0.25-Heap-Overflow.html

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/216
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-11-04 10:24:32 UTC 
Created audacity tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1277902]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1277904]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2015-11-04 10:24:42 UTC 
Created jack-audio-connection-kit tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1277901]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1277903]
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2015-11-04 10:24:50 UTC 
Created libsndfile tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 1277905]
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2015-11-04 10:24:57 UTC 
Created pulseaudio tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 1277906]
Comment 5 Stefan Cornelius 2015-11-05 15:27:12 UTC 
The problem appears to be in the header_read() function in src/common.c

>> if (psf->headindex + bytes > SIGNED_SIZEOF (psf->header))
>>    806 	{	int most ;
>>    807 
>>    808 		most = SIGNED_SIZEOF (psf->header) - psf->headindex ;
>>    809 		psf_fread (psf->header + psf->headend, 1, most, psf) ;
>>    810 		memset ((char *) ptr + most, 0, bytes - most) ;
>>    811 
>>    812 		psf_fseek (psf, bytes - most, SEEK_CUR) ;
>>    813 		return bytes ;
>>    814 		} ;

line 808 is trying to calculate the maximum remaining space in the header, "most". However, this calculation does not take "psf->headend" into account.

in line 809, psf_fread() tries to append "most" bytes to the header, but the start is offset by "psf->headend". Since "psf->headend" was not part of the "most" calculation, we end up overflowing psf->header.

After the psf->header, there are a couple function pointers for special IO functions. It's possible to e.g. overwrite the "seek" function pointer, which causes the psf_fseek() in line 812 to ultimately jump to a location controlled by the attacker.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-11-13 22:53:52 UTC 
libsndfile-1.0.25-17.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-11-23 19:54:54 UTC 
libsndfile-1.0.17-7.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-11-23 22:51:07 UTC 
libsndfile-1.0.25-17.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-11-23 23:20:10 UTC 
libsndfile-1.0.25-16.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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