CVE-2015-6749
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2015-09-21 19:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 07:29Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-08-30
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 24265397c9d60454c3e4fb93371cac9e0b539590fee591cc82933c46f15d9c12
05 Affected products
06 References
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20150828 CVE request: vorbis-tools: buffer overflow in aiff_open()http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/455
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258424
- bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797461
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-14663http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166424.html
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20150830 Re: CVE request: vorbis-tools: buffer overflow in aiff_open()http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/457
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:1686http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00013.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258443
- trac.xiph.orghttps://trac.xiph.org/attachment/ticket/2212/0001-oggenc-Fix-large-alloca-on-bad-AIFF-input.patch
- trac.xiph.orghttps://trac.xiph.org/ticket/2212
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-14664http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165555.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- vorbis-tools Fixed in 1.4.0-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- vorbis-tools Fixed in 1.4.0-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- vorbis-tools Fixed in 1.4.0-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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