Medium severity · published Feb 24, 2022
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…
6.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AU
Audiofile · Audiofile
0.3.6 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
37; 38; 39 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24599
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24599
Exploit
https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues/60
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00006.html
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N4JXZ6QAMA3TSRY6GUZRY3WTHR7P5TPH/
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WTETOUJNRR75REYJZTBGF6TAJZYTMXUY/
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZPG27YKICLIWUFOPVUOAFAZGOX4BNHY/
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00020.html
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