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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2022-24599 json

In autofile Audio File Library 0.3.6, there exists one memory leak vulnerability in printfileinfo, in printinfo.c, which allows an attacker…

published 2022-02-22 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-29478

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • audiofile Debian 12 0.3.6-5+deb12u1
  • audiofile Debian 14, Debian 13 0.3.6-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24599

  • audiofile Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 0.3.6-5+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
  • audiofile Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 0.3.6-5+deb10u1build0.22.04.1
  • audiofile Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.3+esm1
  • audiofile Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1
  • audiofile Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 0.3.6-4ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24599

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • audiofile SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.3.6-150000.3.12.1
  • audiofile SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 0.3.6-11.10.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02283-1SUSE-SU-2025:01559-1SUSE-SU-2025:1559-1

  • audiofile openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.3.6-15.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15050-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-24599 updated cvss 6.5

audiofile: memory leak in printinfo.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 audiofile
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 audiofile
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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Exploit prediction

1.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues/60 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.