Bug#870809: lame: CVE-2017-11720

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: lame
Version: 3.99.5+repack1-7
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/460/

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for lame.

CVE-2017-11720[0]:
| There is a division-by-zero vulnerability in LAME 3.99.5, caused by a
| malformed input file.

This should be/is almost surely a the same as reported in [2].

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11720
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11720
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/460/
[2] https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/06/17/lame-divide-by-zero-in-parse_wave_header-get_audio-c/

Regards,
Salvatore