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medium 5.5

CVE-2017-17054 json

Aubio Divide-By-Zero DoS vulnerability in new_aubio_source_wavread function

published 2017-11-29 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vcwx-8mqh-2557 , PYSEC-2017-75 , EUVD-2017-0013

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi aubio 0.4.7
  • aubio Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.4.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17054

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-2017-17054 updated cvss 4.3

aubio: divide-by-zero in new_aubio_source_wavread() in source_wavread.c

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi aubio
<0.4.7
0.4.7

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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