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CVE-2015-7747
Buffer overflow in the afReadFrames function in audiofile (aka libaudiofile and Audio File Library) allows user-assisted remote attackers…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 8.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in the afReadFrames function in audiofile (aka libaudiofile and Audio File Library) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted audio file, as demonstrated by sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.8% · top 4.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2787-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audiofile/+bug/1502721 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/06/2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170387.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/08/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/blob/master/package/audiofile/0008-CVE-2015-7747.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-7647 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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