Title: Audio File Library (libaudiofile) 'msadpcm.c' WAV File Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Audio File Library ('libaudiofile') is an API for accessing various audio file formats.
The library is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied data. This issue occurs in the 'msadpcm.c' source file. Attackers may exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to process a malicious WAV file with an application that uses the vulnerable library.
Successful exploits will allow attackers to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of applications using the vulnerable library. Failed exploit attempts will likely cause denial-of-service conditions.
This issue affects libaudiofile 0.2.6; other versions may also be vulnerable.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 4.0
- Debian Linux 4.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 4.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 4.0 arm
- Debian Linux 4.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 4.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 4.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 4.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 4.0 mips
- Debian Linux 4.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 4.0 powerpc
- Debian Linux 4.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 4.0 sparc
- Michael Pruett Audio File Library 0.2.6
- Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon (MPD) 0.14
- Pardus Linux 2008
- S.u.S.E. Novell Linux Desktop 9
- S.u.S.E. Open-Enterprise-Server
- S.u.S.E. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
- S.u.S.E. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- S.u.S.E. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
- S.u.S.E. openSUSE 10.3
- S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.0
- S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.1
References:
- Max Kellerman: Debian Bug report logs - #510205 buffer overflow in libaudiofile
- Michael Pruett: Audio File Library Homepage
- wiskas: 0001915: crash when playing an msadpcm file with libasound
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