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CVE-2017-9258

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9258 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the TDStretch::processSamples function within SoundTouch 1.9.2, affecting products like Surina SoundTouch. A remote attacker can trigger an infinite loop and high CPU consumption by providing a specially crafted WAV file. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, leading to high availability impact (A:H). While exploit code exists on ExploitDB (EDB-42389), there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:surina:soundtouch:1.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-42389 · Jul 28, 2017
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0424 is in the 96th 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: soundtouch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-9258Low

soundtouch: Infinite loop in the TDStretch::processSamples function

Jul 26, 2017

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/62
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/42389