CVE-2017-11552

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

mpg321.c in mpg321 0.3.2-1 does not properly manage memory for use with libmad 0.15.1b, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption seen in a crash in the mad_decoder_run function in decoder.c in libmad) via a crafted MP3 file.

Affected products

Underbit Mad Libmad: 0.15.1b

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/94
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870406
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42409/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/94
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870406
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42409/

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