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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-2236 (libsndfile)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: libsndfile-1.0.17-2.fc7
Date:  Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:00:24 -0700
Message-ID:  <200709241800.l8OI0Qtr011674@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-2236 2007-09-24 18:00:21.475300 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libsndfile Product : Fedora 7 Version : 1.0.17 Release : 2.fc7 URL : http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ Summary : Library for reading and writing sound files Description : libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing sound files such as AIFF, AU, WAV, and others through one standard interface. It can currently read/write 8, 16, 24 and 32-bit PCM files as well as 32 and 64-bit floating point WAV files and a number of compressed formats. It compiles and runs on *nix, MacOS, and Win32. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: An updated libsndfile package has been released, fixing a potential heap-based buffer overflow in malcrafted flac files. Thx to Robert Buchholz for finding that issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Sep 20 2007 Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> - 1.0.17-2 - Adding FLAC support to libsndfile courtesy of gentoo, #237575 - Fixing CVE-2007-4974. Thanks to the gentoo people for the patch, #296221 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #237575 - libsndfile should be rebuilt with flac support https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237575 [ 2 ] Bug #296221 - CVE-2007-4974 Heap overflow in libsndfile triggerable by seeks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296221 [ 3 ] CVE-2007-4974 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 352d73435f2715fe612db49fd47de8c66bf5575f libsndfile-devel-1.0.17-2.fc7.ppc64.rpm 298f40409b4daa816cb5979234f28bff87e98309 libsndfile-debuginfo-1.0.17-2.fc7.ppc64.rpm a3adbe152623052cfae77c795956ec492f685b24 libsndfile-1.0.17-2.fc7.ppc64.rpm b4824d5eeb33f816c14ef38388f18009ea5791c2 libsndfile-1.0.17-2.fc7.i386.rpm 2e04c2ad148062606ddc84dc61aac1ba0cce22e6 libsndfile-debuginfo-1.0.17-2.fc7.i386.rpm 25883cac8ed9af8e0e0887027c43a0e7ed8e4187 libsndfile-devel-1.0.17-2.fc7.i386.rpm 4834cb1f264b5399eb22b11f4c3fdc3df016652a libsndfile-debuginfo-1.0.17-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm fcdca9ab73a26dfef708a08db9ec8729b7ce82ce libsndfile-devel-1.0.17-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm 6feccb2749b72367992461b450f36b29e329a536 libsndfile-1.0.17-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm 8fd5de37c501c09a0125ed458bd1b8ec5812b9d7 libsndfile-debuginfo-1.0.17-2.fc7.ppc.rpm 047edda7ab184c90f0b9a9732400013defbe9e6c libsndfile-devel-1.0.17-2.fc7.ppc.rpm 8cfd0d45d9abf71507b38688f74510abdf6df743 libsndfile-1.0.17-2.fc7.ppc.rpm 9e6d61649a9f9cb8454324cb11efe88be5140950 libsndfile-1.0.17-2.fc7.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libsndfile' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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