Bug#905491: soundtouch: CVE-2018-1000223: Heap-based buffer overflow in SoundStretch/WavFile.cpp:WavInFile::readHeaderBlock()

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: soundtouch
Version: 1.9.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.com/soundtouch/soundtouch/issues/6

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for soundtouch, filling the
bug to track the upstream issue.

CVE-2018-1000223[0]:
|Heap-based buffer overflow in
|SoundStretch/WavFile.cpp:WavInFile::readHeaderBlock() potentially
|leading to code execution

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-2018-1000223
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000223
[1] https://gitlab.com/soundtouch/soundtouch/issues/6

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore