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CVE-2014-9640 json

oggenc/oggenc.c in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted raw file.

published 2015-01-23 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-9450

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

oggenc/oggenc.c in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted raw file.

Patch / fix

  • vorbis-tools Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.4.0-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9640

  • vorbis-tools SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 1.4.0-19.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:0367-1

  • vorbis-tools openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.4.0-22.6

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10259-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-9640 updated cvss 2.1

vorbis-tools: segfault when trying to encode trivial raw input

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vorbis-tools Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 vorbis-tools
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 vorbis-tools
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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