CVE-2014-9756: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The psf_fwrite function in file_io.c in libsndfile allows attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via unspecified vectors related to the headindex variable.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Libsndfile Project Libsndfile: before 1.0.26 (fixed in 1.0.26)
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only

Published 2015-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.