Change:
There is . I think the fix is , but there was about whether that fixed the problem, so it might be worth a careful look. With any luck I'll have time to look at this in a few hours, but if anyone else wants to take this, comment here.
/cc maintainer:
Today's status: trying to find a patch for 0.3.6 that's supposed to exist; asked at
Probably won't get back to this for 18h or so though... so feel free to grab it :-)

Discussion:
<ins> Description: fix buffer overflow when changing both sample format and number of channels Origin: backport, https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/pull/25 Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/+bug/1502721 Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801102 Index: audiofile-0.3.6/libaudiofile/modules/ModuleState.cpp =================================================================== --- audiofile-0.3.6.orig/libaudiofile/modules/ModuleState.cpp	2015-10-20 08:00:58.036128202 -0400 +++ audiofile-0.3.6/libaudiofile/modules/ModuleState.cpp	2015-10-20 08:00:58.036128202 -0400 @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ addModule(new Transform(outfc, in.pcm, out.pcm)); if (in.channelCount != out.channelCount) -		addModule(new ApplyChannelMatrix(infc, isReading, +		addModule(new ApplyChannelMatrix(outfc, isReading, in.channelCount, out.channelCount, in.pcm.minClip, in.pcm.maxClip, track->channelMatrix)); Index: audiofile-0.3.6/test/Makefile.am =================================================================== --- audiofile-0.3.6.orig/test/Makefile.am	2015-10-20 08:00:58.036128202 -0400 +++ audiofile-0.3.6/test/Makefile.am	2015-10-20 08:00:58.036128202 -0400 @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ VirtualFile  floatto24  query2  +	sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono  sixteen-to-eight  testchannelmatrix  testdouble  @@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ printmarkers_LDADD = $(LIBAUDIOFILE) -lm sixteen_to_eight_SOURCES = sixteen-to-eight.c TestUtilities.cpp TestUtilities.h +sixteen_stereo_to_eight_mono_SOURCES = sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c TestUtilities.cpp TestUtilities.h testchannelmatrix_SOURCES = testchannelmatrix.c TestUtilities.cpp TestUtilities.h Index: audiofile-0.3.6/test/sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c =================================================================== --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 +++ audiofile-0.3.6/test/sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c	2015-10-20 08:33:57.512286416 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +/* +	Audio File Library + +	Copyright 2000, Silicon Graphics, Inc. + +	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +	the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +	(at your option) any later version. + +	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the +	GNU General Public License for more details. + +	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along +	with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., +	51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. +*/ + +/* +	sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c + +	This program tests the conversion from 2-channel 16-bit integers to +	1-channel 8-bit	integers. +*/ + +#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H +#include <config.h> +#endif + +#include <stdint.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <string.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <limits.h> + +#include <audiofile.h> + +#include "TestUtilities.h" + +int main (int argc, char **argv) +{ +	AFfilehandle file; +	AFfilesetup setup; +	int16_t frames16[] = {14298, 392, 3923, -683, 958, -1921}; +	int8_t frames8[] = {28, 6, -2}; +	int i, frameCount = 3; +	int8_t byte; +	AFframecount result; + +	setup = afNewFileSetup(); + +	afInitFileFormat(setup, AF_FILE_WAVE); + +	afInitSampleFormat(setup, AF_DEFAULT_TRACK, AF_SAMPFMT_TWOSCOMP, 16); +	afInitChannels(setup, AF_DEFAULT_TRACK, 2); + +	char testFileName[PATH_MAX]; +	if (!createTemporaryFile("sixteen-to-eight", testFileName)) +	{ +		fprintf(stderr, "Could not create temporary file.n"); +		exit(EXIT_FAILURE); +	} + +	file = afOpenFile(testFileName, "w", setup); +	if (file == AF_NULL_FILEHANDLE) +	{ +		fprintf(stderr, "could not open file for writingn"); +		exit(EXIT_FAILURE); +	} + +	afFreeFileSetup(setup); + +	afWriteFrames(file, AF_DEFAULT_TRACK, frames16, frameCount); + +	afCloseFile(file); + +	file = afOpenFile(testFileName, "r", AF_NULL_FILESETUP); +	if (file == AF_NULL_FILEHANDLE) +	{ +		fprintf(stderr, "could not open file for readingn"); +		exit(EXIT_FAILURE); +	} + +	afSetVirtualSampleFormat(file, AF_DEFAULT_TRACK, AF_SAMPFMT_TWOSCOMP, 8); +	afSetVirtualChannels(file, AF_DEFAULT_TRACK, 1); + +	for (i=0; i<frameCount; i++) +	{ +		/* Read one frame. */ +		result = afReadFrames(file, AF_DEFAULT_TRACK, &byte, 1); + +		if (result != 1) +			break; + +		/* Compare the byte read with its precalculated value. */ +		if (memcmp(&byte, &frames8[i], 1) != 0) +		{ +			printf("errorn"); +			printf("expected %d, got %dn", frames8[i], byte); +			exit(EXIT_FAILURE); +		} +		else +		{ +#ifdef DEBUG +			printf("got what was expected: %dn", byte); +#endif +		} +	} + +	afCloseFile(file); +	unlink(testFileName); + +	exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); +} </ins>

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