RHSA-2022:1968 — Security Advisory

An update for libsndfile is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound, such as AIFF, AU, or WAV.

Security Fix(es):

• libsndfile: heap out-of-bounds read in src/flac.c in flac_buffer_copy (CVE-2021-4156)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.