Divide By Zero The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-32bit  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-PYTHON32BIT-2726898
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed24 Jan 2020

Introduced: 24 Jan 2020

CVE-2017-18207  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-369  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-32bit package and not the python-32bit package as distributed by SLES.

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.