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CVE-2017-7741

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In libsndfile before 1.0.28, an error in the "flac_buffer_copy()" function (flac.c) can be exploited to cause a segmentation violation (with write memory access) via a specially crafted FLAC file during a resample attempt, a similar issue to CVE-2017-7585.

Affected products

• Flexera Software LLC libsndfile: through 1.0.27

References

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/11/libsndfile-invalid-memory-read-and-invalid-memory-write-in/
• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/60b234301adf258786d8b90be5c1d437fc8799e0
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-04
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/11/libsndfile-invalid-memory-read-and-invalid-memory-write-in/
• https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/60b234301adf258786d8b90be5c1d437fc8799e0
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-04

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