Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201710-11

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

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

Resolution

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

None.

Description

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

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