USN-5749-1: libsamplerate vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• libsamplerate - Audio sample rate conversion library

Details

Erik de Castro Lopo and Agostino Sarubbo discovered that libsamplerate
did not properly perform bounds checking. If a user were tricked into
processing a specially crafted audio file, an attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause a crash.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04

• libsamplerate0 - 0.1.8-8ubuntu0.1~esm1
  Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-7697