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CVE-2017-12562

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in the psf_binheader_writef function in common.c in libsndfile through 1.0.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Flexera Software LLC libsndfile: 1.0.28

References

• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/292
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00020.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-23
• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/292
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00020.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-23

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