CVE-2016-2540

NameCVE-2016-2540
DescriptionAudacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1277-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
audacity (PTS)bullseye2.4.2~dfsg0-5fixed
bookworm3.2.4+dfsg-1fixed
sid, trixie3.7.0+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
audacitysourcewheezy2.0.1-1+deb7u1DLA-1277-1
audacitysource(unstable)2.1.2-1unimportant

Notes

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.1.2
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/407c1dc4b209111e4dbb3eec88f333aa8f69094c
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/b5f2046286b266b10f87b764faa1586aee9c23ea
Crash in desktop application, no security impact

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