PT-2018-4904 · Audacity Team+1 · Audacity+1

Chris Navarrete · Published 2018-02-07 · Updated 2018-12-10 · CVE-2016-2540

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Audacity versions prior to 2.1.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption and application crash, via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.1.2, update to version 2.1.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2812

CVE-2016-2540

DLA-1277-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Audacity

References · 14

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2540 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-2812 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2540 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.1.2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2540 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2541 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2540 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2540 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2016-2540 · Note
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00012.html · Note
• https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-116 · Note