CVE-2017-6831: Audiofile

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeBlockWAVE function in IMA.cpp in Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6, 0.3.5, 0.3.4, 0.3.3, 0.3.2, 0.3.1, 0.3.0 and 0.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Audiofile Audiofile: version 0.2.7 only; version 0.3.0 only; version 0.3.1 only; version 0.3.2 only; version 0.3.3 only; version 0.3.4 only; …
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2017-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.