CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6834
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ulaw2linear_buf function in G711.cpp in Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6, 0.3.5, 0.3.4, 0.3.3, 0.3.2, 0.3.1, 0.3.0, 0.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.
Affected configurations
• audiofile audiofile 0.2.7
• audiofile audiofile 0.3.0
• audiofile audiofile 0.3.1
• audiofile audiofile 0.3.2
• audiofile audiofile 0.3.3
• audiofile audiofile 0.3.4
• audiofile audiofile 0.3.5
• audiofile audiofile 0.3.6
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3814 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/13/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/20/audiofile-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-ulaw2linear_buf-g711-cpp/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues/38 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/pull/42 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3814 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/13/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/20/audiofile-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-ulaw2linear_buf-g711-cpp/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues/38 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/pull/42 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory