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libsndfile: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):libsndfile CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1788 CVE-2009-1791
Created:May 28, 2009 Updated:December 4, 2009
Description: libsndfile has a pair of arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities. From the Gentoo alert:

Tobias Klein reported that the header_read() function in src/common.c uses user input for calculating a buffer size, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-1788).

The vendor reported a boundary error in the aiff_read_header() function in src/aiff.c, possibly leading to a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-1791).

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:132-1 2009-12-03
Fedora FEDORA-2009-11618 2009-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2009-11499 2009-11-16
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:013 2009-08-11
Ubuntu USN-849-1 2009-10-15
Debian DSA-1814-1 2009-06-13
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:132 2009-06-07
Gentoo 200905-09 2009-05-27

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