Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3241-1

22nd March, 2017

audiofile vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

audiofile could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially
crafted file.

Software description

• audiofile
  – Open-source version of the SGI audiofile library

Details

Agostino Sarubbo discovered that audiofile incorrectly handled certain
malformed audio files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted audio file, a remote attacker could cause
applications linked against audiofile 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 14.04 LTS:

libaudiofile1

0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libaudiofile1

0.3.3-2ubuntu0.3

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.

References

CVE-2017-6827,

CVE-2017-6828,

CVE-2017-6829,

CVE-2017-6830,

CVE-2017-6831,

CVE-2017-6832,

CVE-2017-6833,

CVE-2017-6834,

CVE-2017-6835,

CVE-2017-6836,

CVE-2017-6837,

CVE-2017-6838,

CVE-2017-6839