CVE-2015-7747: Audiofile

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the afReadFrames function in audiofile (aka libaudiofile and Audio File Library) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted audio file, as demonstrated by sixteen-stereo-to-eight-mono.c.

Affected products

• Audiofile Audiofile: before 0.3.6 (fixed in 0.3.6)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 23 only

Published 2020-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.