CVE-2017-14633 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-14633?

CVE-2017-14633 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 21 Sep 2017. 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

In Xiph.Org libvorbis 1.3.5, an out-of-bounds array read vulnerability exists in the function mapping0_forward() in mapping0.c, which may lead to DoS when operating on a crafted audio file with vorbis_analysis().

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14633?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Xiph.org Libvorbis.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14633?

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-2017-14633 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14633 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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 ALPINE-CVE-2017-14633, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14633, GHSA-rq4g-xjq5-5h9m, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14633.