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CVE-2014-9640

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9640 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in oggenc/oggenc.c of vorbis-tools 1.4.0, affecting openSUSE and Xiph vorbis-tools. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and could lead to a denial of service if a remote attacker provides a specially crafted raw file. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted or discussed vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xiph:vorbis-tools:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0324 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: vorbis-tools
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: vorbis-tools

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9640Low

vorbis-tools: segfault when trying to encode trivial raw input

Jun 20, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0051.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148852.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00032.html
trac.xiph.org / changeset/19117
trac.xiph.org / ticket/2009
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/21/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/9