CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-16942

Divide By Zero

Published: Nov 25, 2017 | Modified: Jun 10, 2019

CVSS 3.x

6.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

4.3 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16942
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/369.html

In libsndfile 1.0.25 (fixed in 1.0.26), a divide-by-zero error exists in the function wav_w64_read_fmt_chunk() in wav_w64.c, which may lead to DoS when playing a crafted audio file.

Weakness

The product divides a value by zero.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Libsndfile	Libsndfile_project	1.0.25 (including)	1.0.25 (including)

References

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