ubuntu · CVE-2015-7747

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Priority: medium Published: 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:46:08 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2015-7747 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (audiofile), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily): released 4, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Buffer overflow in the afReadFrames function in audiofile (aka libaudiofile and Audio File Library) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted audio file, as demonstrated by sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c.

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