What is CVE-2017-9129?

CVE-2017-9129 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Coder, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-06-21.

How severe is CVE-2017-9129?

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

Resource exhaustion in Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Coder

CVE-2017-9129

The wav_open_read function in frontend/input.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (large loop) via a crafted wav file.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.025 (83.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Audiocoding Freeware_advanced_audio_coder — versions 1.28
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9129?: CVE-2017-9129 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Coder, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-06-21.
How severe is CVE-2017-9129?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.