CVE-2017-7741

Summary

CVECVE-2017-7741
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-04-12 18:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-11 01:33:00 UTC
DescriptionIn libsndfile before 1.0.28, an error in the "flac_buffer_copy()" function (flac.c) can be exploited to cause a segmentation violation (with write memory access) via a specially crafted FLAC file during a resample attempt, a similar issue to CVE-2017-7585.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libsndfile Project Libsndfile All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
libsndfile: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201707-04) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
libsndfile: invalid memory READ and invalid memory WRITE in flac_buffer_copy (flac.c) | agostino's blog MISC blogs.gentoo.org Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
src/flac.c: Improve error handling · erikd/libsndfile@60b2343 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500311 Alpine Linux Security Update for libsndfile
  • 504079 Alpine Linux Security Update for libsndfile
  • 671077 EulerOS Security Update for libsndfile (EulerOS-SA-2019-2513)
  • 710429 Gentoo Linux libsndfile Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201707-04)
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