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CVE-2014-9756

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9756 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the psf_fwrite function within libsndfile, affecting products from Canonical, libsndfile_project, and openSUSE. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause an application crash through a divide-by-zero error, requiring low attack complexity and resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libsndfile_project:libsndfile:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0284 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libsndfile
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libsndfile

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9756Low

libsndfile: division by zero leading to denial of service in psf_fwrite()

Dec 22, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00077.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00145.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / erikd/libsndfile/commit/725c7dbb95bfaf8b4bb7b04820e3a00cceea9ce6
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / erikd/libsndfile/issues/92
ExploitThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/12/24/3
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/11/03/9
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2832-1
Third Party Advisory