Out-of-bounds read in lame - CVE-2017-15045
Published: October 6, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU38132
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15045
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: lame.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
lame
lame
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read in fill_buffer in libmp3lame/util.c, related to lame_encode_buffer_sample_t in libmp3lame/lame.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-9410. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-15045
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.