CVE-2017-18207

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18207
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18207.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-18207
Related
Withdrawn
2020-01-21T21:06:32Z
Published
2018-03-01T05:29:00Z
Modified
2024-10-11T11:26:30Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The Waveread.readfmtchunk 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python/cpython

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python/cpython
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected