CVE-2015-6749: Buffer Overflow
First published: Sun Aug 30 2015(Updated: )
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the oggenc utility, which is used to encode audio into the Ogg Vorbis format, handled invalid AIFF files. An attacker could provide a specially crafted AIFF file that would crash oggenc when processed. Upstream bug with a patch: <a href="https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/2212">https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/2212</a>
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Xiph Vorbis-tools | <=1.4.0 | |
| debian/vorbis-tools | 1.4.0-11 1.4.2-1 1.4.2-2 |
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Reference Links
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0000000-08B637
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6749
- https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/2212
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9638
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9639
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9640
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797461
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1258444
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/457
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1258424
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1258443#c5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258443
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165555.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166424.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00013.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/455
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258424
- https://trac.xiph.org/attachment/ticket/2212/0001-oggenc-Fix-large-alloca-on-bad-AIFF-input.patch
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/29/1
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