[arch-security] [ASA-201710-11] lame: denial of service

[Levente Polyak]

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201710-11
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Severity: Low
Date    : 2017-10-09
CVE-ID  : CVE-2017-15018
Package : lame
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : No
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-437

Summary
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The package lame before version 3.99.5-4 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 3.99.5-4.

# pacman -Syu "lame>=3.99.5-4"

The problem has been fixed upstream but no release is available yet.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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A heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability has been discovered in LAME
3.99.5 in the k_34_4 function in vbrquantize.c while handling a
malformed file.

Impact
======

An attacker is able to crash the application by tricking the user into
processing a specially crafted file.

References
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https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55889
https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/480/
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-15018

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