CVE-2016-2540
Published on: 02/07/2018 12:00:00 AM UTC
Last Modified on: 03/23/2021 11:27:16 PM UTC
Certain versions of Audacity from Audacityteam contain the following vulnerability:
Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.
- CVE-2016-2540 has been assigned by
[email protected] to track the vulnerability - currently rated as MEDIUM severity.
CVSS3 Score: 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack Vector ⓘ |
Attack Complexity |
Privileges Required |
User Interaction |
|
---|---|---|---|---|
LOCAL | LOW | NONE | REQUIRED | |
Scope | Confidentiality Impact |
Integrity Impact |
Availability Impact |
|
UNCHANGED | NONE | NONE | HIGH |
CVSS2 Score: 4.3 - MEDIUM
Access Vector ⓘ |
Access Complexity |
Authentication |
---|---|---|
NETWORK | MEDIUM | NONE |
Confidentiality Impact |
Integrity Impact |
Availability Impact |
NONE | NONE | PARTIAL |
CVE References
Description | Tags ⓘ | Link |
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Fortinet Discovers Audacity WAV File Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability | FortiGuard | Third Party Advisory fortiguard.com text/html |
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Release Notes 2.1.2 - Audacity Wiki | Release Notes Vendor Advisory wiki.audacityteam.org text/html |
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[SECURITY] [DLA 1277-1] audacity security update | Third Party Advisory lists.debian.org text/html |
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There are currently no QIDs associated with this CVE
Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)
Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
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Application | Audacityteam | Audacity | All | All | All | All |
Application | Audacityteam | Audacity | All | All | All | All |
- cpe:2.3:a:audacityteam:audacity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:
- cpe:2.3:a:audacityteam:audacity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE