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From: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
To: sox-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH] aiff: fix crash on empty comment chunk (CVE-2017-15642)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:05:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171120110535.14410-1-mans@mansr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_ZyaA_WyTTEWeGYPUhG95M3wOv64vTqn8jeH4JYvgMnx83Tw@mail.gmail.com>

This fixes a use after free and double free if an empty comment
chunk follows a non-empty one.
---
 src/aiff.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/aiff.c b/src/aiff.c
index e34286be0a97..197ccd4e5d20 100644
--- a/src/aiff.c
+++ b/src/aiff.c
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ int lsx_aiffstartread(sox_format_t * ft)
   size_t ssndsize = 0;
   char *annotation;
   char *author;
-  char *comment = NULL;
   char *copyright;
   char *nametext;
 
@@ -271,6 +270,7 @@ int lsx_aiffstartread(sox_format_t * ft)
       free(annotation);
     }
     else if (strncmp(buf, "COMT", (size_t)4) == 0) {
+      char *comment = NULL;
       rc = commentChunk(&comment, "Comment:", ft);
       if (rc) {
         /* Fail already called in function */
-- 
2.15.0


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-20 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-20  9:17 New CVE bug Jaromír Mikeš
2017-11-20 11:05 ` Mans Rullgard [this message]
2017-11-20 12:22   ` [PATCH] aiff: fix crash on empty comment chunk (CVE-2017-15642) Jaromír Mikeš

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