CVE-2017-16942

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16942
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16942.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16942
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-11-25T17:29:00.197Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:05:39.393523Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In libsndfile 1.0.25 (fixed in 1.0.26), a divide-by-zero error exists in the function wavw64readfmtchunk() in wav_w64.c, which may lead to DoS when playing a crafted audio file.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile
Events
Introduced
2c4d2bdce6271fb1dc7df67363cf33cc04c67917
Last affected
2c4d2bdce6271fb1dc7df67363cf33cc04c67917
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libsndfile_project:libsndfile:1.0.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.0.25"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.0.25"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.25

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16942.json"