Out-of-Bounds Affecting libvorbis package, versions <1.3.5-4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.59% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBVORBIS-326227
  • published21 Sept 2017
  • disclosed21 Sept 2017

Introduced: 21 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14632  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libvorbis to version 1.3.5-4.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvorbis package and not the libvorbis package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Xiph.Org libvorbis 1.3.5 allows Remote Code Execution upon freeing uninitialized memory in the function vorbis_analysis_headerout() in info.c when vi->channels<=0, a similar issue to Mozilla bug 550184.

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