CVE-2018-17095

Publication date 16 September 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

An issue has been discovered in mpruett Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6, 0.3.5, 0.3.4, 0.3.3, 0.3.2, 0.3.1, 0.3.0. A heap-based buffer overflow in Expand3To4Module::run has occurred when running 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
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

mdeslaur

no fix as of 2018-09-18

ebarretto

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

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 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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