Bug 1440756 (CVE-2017-7585) - CVE-2017-7585 libsndfile: Stack-based buffer overflow in flac_buffer_copy()
Summary: CVE-2017-7585 libsndfile: Stack-based buffer overflow in flac_buffer_copy()
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7585
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1440760
Blocks: 1440764
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Reported: 2017-04-10 12:31 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:09 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: libsndfile 1.0.28
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A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libsndfile handled FLAC files. This flaw could potentially be used to crash the application using libsndfile by tricking the application into processing specially crafted FLAC files.
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Last Closed: 2017-04-11 09:08:57 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-04-10 12:31:11 UTC 
In libsndfile before 1.0.28, an error in the "flac_buffer_copy()" function (flac.c) can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted FLAC file.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/60b234301adf258786d8b90be5c1d437fc8799e0
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-04-10 12:37:35 UTC 
Created libsndfile tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1440760]
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