CVE-2014-9638

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 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: yes
Published: 2015-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

oggenc in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and crash) via a WAV file with the number of channels set to zero.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Xiph Vorbis-Tools: 1.4.0

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150543.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150570.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00054.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/78
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/21/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72290
https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/2137
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150543.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150570.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00054.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/78

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