CVE-2017-17054 Aubio Divide-By-Zero DoS vulnerability in new_aubio_source_wavread function

What is CVE-2017-17054?

CVE-2017-17054 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Nov 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In aubio 0.4.6, a divide-by-zero error exists in the function new_aubio_source_wavread() in source_wavread.c, which may lead to DoS when playing a crafted audio file.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17054?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including aubio. It affects 1 product.

Products include Aubio Aubio.

How do I fix CVE-2017-17054?

Upgrade aubio to 0.4.7 or later.

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-2017-17054 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17054 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2018-19800 aubio Buffer Overflow vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-14521 Aubio is vulnerable to denial of service via aubio_source_avcodec_readframe function High 8.8
• CVE-2018-14522 Aubio is vulnerable to denial of service via aubio_pitch_set_unit function High 8.8
• CVE-2018-14523 Aubio is vulnerable to out of bound read when samplerate > 50kHz High 8.8
• CVE-2018-19801 Aubio is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in new_aubio_filterbank High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17054, GHSA-vcwx-8mqh-2557, MGASA-2018-0194, PYSEC-2017-75, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17054.