Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting mpruett/audiofile package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MPRUETTAUDIOFILE-2414080
  • published2 Mar 2022
  • disclosed24 Feb 2022
  • creditZzero00

Introduced: 24 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-24599  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mpruett/audiofile.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via a memory leak in printinfo.c which allows an attacker to leak sensitive information via a crafted file. The printfileinfo function calls the copyrightstring function to get data, however, it dosn't use zero bytes to truncate the data in order to prevent the memory leak.

CVSS Base Scores

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