CVE-2022-24599

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 dosnt use zero bytes to truncate the data.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Audio_file_library	Audio_file_library_project	0.3.6 (including)	0.3.6 (including)
Audiofile	Ubuntu	bionic	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	esm-apps/bionic	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	esm-apps/xenial	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	focal	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	impish	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	jammy	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	kinetic	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	lunar	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	mantic	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	trusty	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	trusty/esm	*
Audiofile	Ubuntu	xenial	*

Potential Mitigations

Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24599
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Weakness

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References