CVE-2017-18207
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18207
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18207.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-18207
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-03-01T05:29:00.227Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-31T04:43:07.850518Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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.
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