CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18207
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-01
- 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
The Wave_read._read_fmt_chunk function in Lib/wave.py in Python through 3.6.4 does not ensure a nonzero channel value, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and exception) via a crafted wav format audio file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue because Python applications "need to be prepared to handle a wide variety of exceptions.
Affected configurations
• python python (<= 3.6.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://bugs.python.org/issue32056 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://bugs.python.org/issue32056 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory