What is CVE-2017-9259?

CVE-2017-9259 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Surina Soundtouch, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-9259?

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

Resource exhaustion in Surina Soundtouch

CVE-2017-9259

The TDStretch::acceptNewOverlapLength function in source/SoundTouch/TDStretch.cpp in SoundTouch 1.9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory allocation error and application crash) via a crafted wav file.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.062 (92.7th 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

Surina Soundtouch — versions 1.9.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
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-2017-9259?: CVE-2017-9259 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Surina Soundtouch, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-9259?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.