7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-9872

Published: 25/06/2017 Updated: 12/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 685
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The III_dequantize_sample function in layer3.c in mpglib, as used in libmpgdecoder.a in LAME 3.99.5 and other products, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted audio file.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #867725 CVE-2017-9869 CVE-2017-9870 CVE-2017-9871 CVE-2017-9872 Package: src:lame; Maintainer for src:lame is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 22:27:01 UTC Severity: grav ...
The III_dequantize_sample function in layer3c in mpglib, as used in libmpgdecodera in LAME before 3100 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted audio file ...

Exploits

Description: lame is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL Few notes before the details of this bug Time ago a fuzz was done by Brian Carpenter and Jakub Wilk which posted the results on the debian bugtracker In cases like this, when upstream is not active and people do not post on the upstream bugzilla is ea ...