Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libsndfile  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-LIBSNDFILE-649385
  • published30 Nov 2018
  • disclosed30 Nov 2018

Introduced: 30 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19758  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

There is a heap-based buffer over-read at wav.c in wav_write_header in libsndfile 1.0.28 that will cause a denial of service.