Resource exhaustion in SoundTouch - CVE-2017-9259
Published: July 27, 2017 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU38639
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9259
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The TDStretch::acceptNewOverlapLength function in source/SoundTouch/TDStretch.cpp in SoundTouch 1.9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory allocation error and application crash) via a crafted wav file.
Affected software
SoundTouch
Fedora
soundtouch
Fedora
soundtouch
How to mitigate CVE-2017-9259
Install update from vendor's website.
soundtouch - addressed in versions 2.0.0-3.fc27, 2.0.0-3.fc28