CVE-2015-6749
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Buffer overflow in the aiff_open function in oggenc/audio.c in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted AIFF file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.4.0-7 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.4.0-7 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.4.0-7 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.4.0-7 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.4.0-7 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| xiph | vorbis-tools | {"endIncluding":"1.4.0"} | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165555.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166424.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00013.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/455
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/457
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797461
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258424
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258443
- https://trac.xiph.org/attachment/ticket/2212/0001-oggenc-Fix-large-alloca-on-bad-AIFF-input.patch
- https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/2212
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6749
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.