Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting libsndfile package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.09% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBSNDFILE-14930365
  • published14 Jan 2026
  • disclosed14 Jan 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-56226  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via the mpeg_l3_encoder_init() function. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by repeatedly invoking this function, potentially leading to resource exhaustion.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1