Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package audacity  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-AUDACITY-621971
  • published7 Feb 2018
  • disclosed7 Feb 2018

Introduced: 7 Feb 2018

CVE-2016-2540  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream audacity package and not the audacity package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.