CVE-2015-6749

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the aiff_open function in oggenc/audio.c in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted AIFF file.

Affected products

Xiph Vorbis-Tools: through 1.4.0

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165555.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166424.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00013.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/455
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/457
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797461
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258424
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258443
https://trac.xiph.org/attachment/ticket/2212/0001-oggenc-Fix-large-alloca-on-bad-AIFF-input.patch
https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/2212
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165555.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166424.html

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