Bug 1177254 (CVE-2014-9756) - libsndfile: division by zero leading to denial of service in psf_fwrite()
Summary: libsndfile: division by zero leading to denial of service in psf_fwrite()
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2014-9756
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: 1277941 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1178842 1178843
Blocks: Embargoed1177255 Embargoed1277910
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Reported: 2014-12-25 12:22 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-01-09 17:16:18 UTC

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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-12-25 12:22:09 UTC 
A divide-by-zero may occur in libsndfile, resulting in an application crash.
Upstream commit that fixes this issue:
https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/725c7dbb95bfaf8b4bb7b04820e3a00cceea9ce6950933
Comment 1 Michal Hlavinka 2015-01-02 07:42:10 UTC 
Is there any reproducer to test this?

Also the link above gives me 404 error.
Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-05 09:26:12 UTC 
(In reply to Michal Hlavinka from comment #1)
> Is there any reproducer to test this?

Unfortunately I'm not aware of any, here is the corresponding upstream bug report, hope it gives a clue:

https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/issues/92

> Also the link above gives me 404 error.

Oops, something went wrong, the correct link is:
https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/725c7dbb95bfaf8b4bb7b04820e3a00cceea9ce6
Comment 3 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-05 14:35:11 UTC 
Created libsndfile tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1178842]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1178843]
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-01-20 21:00:25 UTC 
libsndfile-1.0.25-9.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-01-21 23:06:29 UTC 
libsndfile-1.0.25-14.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Stefan Cornelius 2015-11-06 12:03:05 UTC 
*** Bug 1277941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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