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libsndfile -- CAF processing integer overflow vulnerability

Description:

Secunia reports:

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in the processing of CAF description chunks. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking the user into processing a specially crafted CAF audio file.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: libsndfile -- CAF processing integer overflow vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>