CVE-2018-14523 Aubio is vulnerable to out of bound read when samplerate > 50kHz

What is CVE-2018-14523?

CVE-2018-14523 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 23 Jul 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An issue was discovered in aubio 0.4.6. A buffer over-read can occur in new_aubio_pitchyinfft in pitch/pitchyinfft.c, as demonstrated by aubionotes.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-14523?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including aubio. It affects 3 products.

Products include Aubio Aubio, Opensuse Leap, Suse Linux Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2018-14523?

Upgrade aubio to 0.4.7 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-14523 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-14523 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

• CVE-2018-19800 aubio Buffer Overflow vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-14521 Aubio is vulnerable to denial of service via aubio_source_avcodec_readframe function High 8.8
• CVE-2018-14522 Aubio is vulnerable to denial of service via aubio_pitch_set_unit function High 8.8
• CVE-2018-19801 Aubio is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in new_aubio_filterbank High 7.5
• CVE-2018-19802 Aubio is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in new_aubio_notes function High 7.5

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14523, GHSA-3x58-8qmv-wqw5, PYSEC-2018-63, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14523.