Subject: [ASA-201902-8] aubio: denial of service

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201902-8
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2019-02-12
CVE-ID  : CVE-2018-19800 CVE-2018-19801 CVE-2018-19802
Package : aubio
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : No
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-888

Summary
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The package aubio before version 0.4.9-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
==========

Upgrade to 0.4.9-1.

# pacman -Syu "aubio>=0.4.9-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 0.4.9.

Workaround
==========

None.

Description
===========

- CVE-2018-19800 (denial of service)

A potential buffer overflow vulnerability was found on invalid
new_aubio-tempo in aubio before 0.4.9, which may lead to application
crash when playing a crafted audio file.

- CVE-2018-19801 (denial of service)

A NULL pointer dereference (denial of service) vulnerability was found
on invalid n_filters in aubio before 0.4.9, which may lead to
application crash when playing a crafted audio file.

- CVE-2018-19802 (denial of service)

A NULL pointer dereference (denial of service) vulnerability was found
on invalid new_aubio_onset in aubio before 0.4.9, which may lead to
application crash when playing a crafted audio file.

Impact
======

An attacker might be able to crash the software by tricking the user
into opening a crafted audio file.

References
==========

https://github.com/aubio/aubio/blob/0.4.9/ChangeLog#L14-L17
https://github.com/aubio/aubio/commit/1cf031a3a5b869368562b1251419fd45191eaa53
https://github.com/aubio/aubio/commit/bcc53876548334b4c5f1ebd47a5bd5f151974e8b
https://github.com/aubio/aubio/commit/c5ee1307bdc004e43302abeca1802c2692b33a8e
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-19800
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-19801
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-19802