Resource Exhaustion Affecting libsndfile-utils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBSNDFILEUTILS-2877359
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed5 Jul 2018

Introduced: 5 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 libsndfile-utils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libsndfile-utils package and not the libsndfile-utils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue has been found in libsndfile 1.0.28. There is a memory leak in psf_allocate in common.c, as demonstrated by sndfile-convert. NOTE: The maintainer and third parties were unable to reproduce and closed the issue