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CVE-2017-6838

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6838 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the Audio File Library (audiofile) version 0.3.6, specifically within the sfcommands/sfconvert.c component. This flaw allows a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (crash) by providing a specially crafted audio file. Rated 5.5 (Medium) on the CVSS scale, it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, resulting in high availability impact (A:H) but no confidentiality or integrity loss. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:audiofile:audiofile:0.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0295 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16916-16823Fixed in: 0.3.6-27
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 audiofile 0.3.6-27 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 0.3.6-27
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: audiofile
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: audiofile
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: audiofile

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2017-Mar/CVE-2017-6838Moderate

Integer overflow in sfcommands/sfconvert.c in Audio File Library

Mar 14, 2017
redhatCVE-2017-6838Low

audiofile: Signed integer overflow in sfconvert.c

Feb 26, 2017

References

blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2017/02/20/audiofile-multiple-ubsan-crashes
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
github.com / antlarr/audiofile/commit/7d65f89defb092b63bcbc5d98349fb222ca73b3c
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / mpruett/audiofile/issues/41
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3814
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/03/13/9
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory