What is CVE-2017-11552?

CVE-2017-11552 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Underbit Mad Libmad, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-01.

How severe is CVE-2017-11552?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Underbit Mad Libmad

CVE-2017-11552

mpg321.c in mpg321 0.3.2-1 does not properly manage memory for use with libmad 0.15.1b, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption seen in a crash in the mad_decoder_run function in decoder.c in libmad) via a crafted MP3 file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.066 (93.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Underbit Mad_libmad — versions 0.15.1b
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11552?: CVE-2017-11552 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Underbit Mad Libmad, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-01.
How severe is CVE-2017-11552?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.