What is CVE-2016-2540?

CVE-2016-2540 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Audacityteam Audacity, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-02-07.

How severe is CVE-2016-2540?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Audacityteam Audacity

CVE-2016-2540

Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2018-02-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (78.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Audacityteam Audacity

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.1.2 (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-116 (Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00012.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-2540?: CVE-2016-2540 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Audacityteam Audacity, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-02-07.
How severe is CVE-2016-2540?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.