Bug 1277941 - CVE-2014-9756 libsndfile: Divide-by-zero in psf_fwrite
Summary: CVE-2014-9756 libsndfile: Divide-by-zero in psf_fwrite
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1177254
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1178842 1178843 1277942 1277943
Blocks: 1277910
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Reported: 2015-11-04 11:52 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-11-06 12:03:05 UTC
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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 ***
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