| Name | CVE-2016-2540 |
| Description | Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1277-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| audacity (PTS) | jessie | 2.0.6-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 2.1.2-2 | fixed |
| buster | 2.2.2-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.4.2~dfsg0-5 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.2.4+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.4.2+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| audacity | source | wheezy | 2.0.1-1+deb7u1 | | DLA-1277-1 | |
| audacity | source | (unstable) | 2.1.2-1 | unimportant | | |
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