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CVE-2020-18781

audiofile: a Denial of Service via crafted file

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 25, 2023

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in audiofile, where heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in FilePOSIX::read in File.cpp leads to denial of service via a crafted wav file, this bug can be triggered by the executable sfconvert.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write