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CVE-2009-0186

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-03-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in libsndfile 1.0.18, as used in Winamp and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted description chunks in a CAF audio file, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Mega-Nerd Libsndfile: through 1.0.18; 0.0.8, 0.0.28, 1.0.0, 1.0.0-rc1, 1.0.0-rc6, 1.0.1 (+16)
• Nullsoft Winamp: 5.55, 5.541

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33980
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33981
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34316
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34526
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34642
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34791
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-7/
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-8/
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-16.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1742
• http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/NEWS

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