CVE-2014-9638 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9638?

CVE-2014-9638 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 23 Jan 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

oggenc in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and crash) via a WAV file with the number of channels set to zero.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9638?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Opensuse, Xiph Vorbis-Tools.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9638?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-9638 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9638 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-6952, AZL-7400, DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9638, GHSA-m9g9-3p8f-5mgj.