CVE-2014-9756 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9756?

CVE-2014-9756 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 19 Nov 2015.

Official description

The psf_fwrite function in file_io.c in libsndfile allows attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via unspecified vectors related to the headindex variable.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9756?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Libsndfile Project Libsndfile, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9756?

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-2014-9756 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9756 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9756, GHSA-vc8h-g97p-fh5j, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9756.