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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4947-1 libsndfile -- security update

Date Reported:

30 Jul 2021

Affected Packages:

libsndfile

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 991496.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-3246.

More information:

Andrea Fioraldi discovered a buffer overflow in libsndfile, a library for reading/writing audio files, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code when processing a malformed audio file.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.28-6+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libsndfile packages.

For the detailed security status of libsndfile please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libsndfile