What is CVE-2018-13440?

CVE-2018-13440 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Audiofile, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-13440?

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

NULL pointer dereference in Audiofile

CVE-2018-13440

The audiofile Audio File Library 0.3.6 has a NULL pointer dereference bug in ModuleState::setup in modules/ModuleState.cpp, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted caf file, as demonstrated by sfconvert.

EPSS: 0.031 (86.4th 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

Audiofile — versions 0.3.6
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-13440?: CVE-2018-13440 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Audiofile, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-13440?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.