Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2787-1
28th October, 2015
audiofile vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 15.10
- Ubuntu 15.04
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
audiofile could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted file.
Software description
- audiofile
– Open-source version of the SGI audiofile library
Details
Fabrizio Gennari discovered that audiofile incorrectly handled changing
both the sample format and the number of channels. If a user or automated
system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, audiofile
could be made to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 15.10:
-
libaudiofile1
0.3.6-2ubuntu0.15.10.1
- Ubuntu 15.04:
-
libaudiofile1
0.3.6-2ubuntu0.15.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libaudiofile1
0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
libaudiofile1
0.3.3-2ubuntu0.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.