CVE-2017-6830 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Audiofile

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
4.9%
top 10.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
AudiofileDebian AudiofileMsrc Cbl2 Audiofile 0.3.6-27 ON CBL Mariner 2.0
Timeline
PublishedMar 20
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the alaw2linear_buf function in G711.cpp in Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/audiofile< audiofile 0.3.6-4 (bookworm)
▶Debianaudiofile/audiofile< 0.3.6-4+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-4jqw-f8xq-pm65: Heap-based buffer overflow in the alaw2linear_buf function in G711↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2017-6830: Heap-based buffer overflow in the alaw2linear_buf function in G711↗2017-03-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
audiofile vulnerabilities↗2017-03-22
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Microsoft
Heap-based buffer overflow in Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service↗2017-03-14
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Red Hat
audiofile: Heap-based buffer overflow in alaw2linear_buf↗2017-02-26
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Debian
CVE-2017-6830: audiofile - Heap-based buffer overflow in the alaw2linear_buf function in G711.cpp in Audio ...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
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-2017-6836 CVE-2017-6835 CVE-2017-6837 CVE-2017-6838 CVE-2017-6839 audiofile: various↗2017-03-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-6830 audiofile: Heap-based buffer overflow in alaw2linear_buf↗2017-03-16
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