CVE-2022-24599
audiofile: memory leak in printinfo.c
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · February 24, 2022
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In autofile Audio File Library 0.3.6, there exists one memory leak vulnerability in printfileinfo, in printinfo.c, which allows an attacker to leak sensitive information via a crafted file. The printfileinfo function calls the copyrightstring function to get data, however, it dosn't use zero bytes to truncate the data.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime