What is CVE-2018-1000050?

CVE-2018-1000050 is a high-severity vulnerability in Stb Vorbis Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-02-09.

How severe is CVE-2018-1000050?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Stb Vorbis Project

CVE-2018-1000050

Sean Barrett stb_vorbis version 1.12 and earlier contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in All vorbis decoding paths. that can result in memory corruption, denial of service, comprised execution of host program. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim must open a specially crafted Ogg Vorbis file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.13.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.018 (76.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Stb_vorbis_project Stb_vorbis
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_CONFIRM, Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1000050?: CVE-2018-1000050 is a high-severity vulnerability in Stb Vorbis Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-02-09.
How severe is CVE-2018-1000050?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.