CVE-2018-13139

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow in psf_memset in common.c in libsndfile 1.0.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted audio file. The vulnerability can be triggered by the executable sndfile-deinterleave.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Flexera Software LLC libsndfile: 1.0.28

References

https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/397
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00016.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-23
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/
https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/397
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00016.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-23
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4013-1/

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