CVE-2017-6838
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6838
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6838.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6838
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-03-20T16:59:03Z
- Modified
- 2025-12-07T09:46:45.345357Z
- Severity
-
- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
Integer overflow in sfcommands/sfconvert.c in Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.
- References
-
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3814
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/13/9
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/20/audiofile-multiple-ubsan-crashes/
- https://github.com/antlarr/audiofile/commit/7d65f89defb092b63bcbc5d98349fb222ca73b3c
- https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues/41
Affected packages
Git / github.com/antlarr/audiofile
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/antlarr/audiofile
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
audiofile-0.*
audiofile-0.2.1
audiofile-0.2.2
audiofile-0.2.3
audiofile-0.2.4
audiofile-0.2.5
audiofile-0.2.6
audiofile-0.2.7
audiofile-0.3.0
audiofile-0.3.1
audiofile-0.3.2
audiofile-0.3.3
audiofile-0.3.4
audiofile-0.3.5
audiofile-0.3.6
Database specific
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6838.json"
vanir_signatures
[
{
"target": {
"function": "copyaudiodata",
"file": "sfcommands/sfconvert.c"
},
"id": "CVE-2017-6838-0b30c72a",
"deprecated": false,
"signature_type": "Function",
"source": "https://github.com/antlarr/audiofile/commit/7d65f89defb092b63bcbc5d98349fb222ca73b3c",
"signature_version": "v1",
"digest": {
"function_hash": "11928935868487764216599788861433179953",
"length": 690.0
}
},
{
"target": {
"file": "sfcommands/sfconvert.c"
},
"id": "CVE-2017-6838-a2ee6a52",
"deprecated": false,
"signature_type": "Line",
"source": "https://github.com/antlarr/audiofile/commit/7d65f89defb092b63bcbc5d98349fb222ca73b3c",
"signature_version": "v1",
"digest": {
"line_hashes": [
"150918354625819740051003512373224212013",
"26581543356970238686948986881481173521",
"95340238861390683713590756590485121383",
"76099634027226077542197166596315184811",
"60148152594538939281170523359972027744",
"73371561367739945972798040661710927992",
"119561788308632664851648660764826611068",
"262657216346216445159424217710771616941"
],
"threshold": 0.9
}
}
]