CVE-2017-18207

Summary

CVECVE-2017-18207
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-01 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:41:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** The Wave_read._read_fmt_chunk function in Lib/wave.py in Python through 3.6.4 does not ensure a nonzero channel value, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and exception) via a crafted wav format audio file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue because Python applications "need to be prepared to handle a wide variety of exceptions."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-369

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Python Python All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0086-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Issue 32056: Improve exceptions in aifc, sunau and wave - Python tracker MISC bugs.python.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900115 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for python2 2.7.18
  • 901280 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for python2 (6824-1)
  • 903411 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for python2 (1909)
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