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high 7.8

CVE-2023-43361 json

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Vorbis-tools v.1.4.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service durin…

published 2023-10-02 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-47778

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Vorbis-tools v.1.4.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service during the conversion of wav files to ogg files.

Patch / fix

  • vorbis-tools Debian 14, Debian 13 1.4.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-43361

  • vorbis-tools RHEL 8 1:1.4.0-29.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:3095

  • vorbis-tools SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1 +12 more 1.4.0-150000.3.3.1
  • vorbis-tools SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 1.4.0-27.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:4251-1SUSE-SU-2023:4218-1

  • vorbis-tools openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.4.2-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13349-1

  • vorbis-tools AlmaLinux 8 1:1.4.0-29.el8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:3095

  • vorbis-tools Rocky Linux 8 1:1.4.0-29.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2024:3095

  • vorbis-tools Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +4 more 9.54-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-43361

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-43361 updated cvss 7.3

vorbis-tools: Buffer Overflow vulnerability

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vorbis-tools Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 vorbis-tools
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) vorbis-tools 1.4.0-29.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3095

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/xiph/vorbis-tools/issues/41 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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