CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16942
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-369
Description
In libsndfile 1.0.25 (fixed in 1.0.26), a divide-by-zero error exists in the function wav_w64_read_fmt_chunk() in wav_w64.c, which may lead to DoS when playing a crafted audio file.
Affected configurations
• libsndfile project libsndfile 1.0.25
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/341 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/341 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/ usn.ubuntu.com