CVE-2018-13440

Publication date 8 July 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

The audiofile Audio File Library 0.3.6 has a NULL pointer dereference bug in ModuleState::setup in modules/ModuleState.cpp, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted caf file, as demonstrated by sfconvert.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
audiofile 23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.3.6-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.3

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Notes

ebarretto

It looks like upstream is not active anymore, some of the open CVEs have a proposed fix on a fork. Marking as deferred for now.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
audiofile

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3800-1
    • audiofile vulnerabilities
    • 24 October 2018
    • USN-6558-1
    • audiofile vulnerabilities
    • 14 December 2023

Other references