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CVE-2017-14246

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An out of bounds read in the function d2ulaw_array() in ulaw.c of libsndfile 1.0.28 may lead to a remote DoS attack or information disclosure, related to mishandling of the NAN and INFINITY floating-point values.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Flexera Software LLC libsndfile: 1.0.28

References

• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/317
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00016.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00030.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-65
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/
• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/317
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00016.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00030.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-65
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/

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