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CVE-2015-7747 json

Buffer overflow in the afReadFrames function in audiofile (aka libaudiofile and Audio File Library) allows user-assisted remote attackers t…

published 2020-02-19 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-7647

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.8%
EPSS 8.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflow in the afReadFrames function in audiofile (aka libaudiofile and Audio File Library) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted audio file, as demonstrated by sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c.

Patch / fix

  • audiofile audiofile 0.3.6
  • audiofile Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.3.6-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7747

  • audiofile Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.3.6-2ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7747

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • audiofile SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 0.3.6-10.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0940-1

  • audiofile openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.3.6-9.5

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10267-1

  • audiofile Azure Linux 3.0 0.3.6-27

azure linux advisories AZL-44172

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2015-7747 updated cvss 3.7

audiofile: Buffer overflow when changing number of channels and sample format

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 audiofile Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 audiofile
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 audiofile
    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

8.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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