Reachable Assertion in SoundTouch - CVE-2018-14045
Published: July 13, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36905
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14045
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The FIRFilter::evaluateFilterMulti function in FIRFilter.cpp in libSoundTouch.a in Olli Parviainen SoundTouch 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit), as demonstrated by SoundStretch.
Affected software
SoundTouch
Fedora
soundtouch
Fedora
soundtouch
How to mitigate CVE-2018-14045
Install update from vendor's website.
soundtouch - addressed in versions 2.0.0-6.fc27, 2.0.0-6.fc28