CVE-2016-2540: Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.92%

77.4th percentile

Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
audacityteam	audacity	< 2.1.2	2.1.2
audacityteam	audacity	>= 0 < 2.1.2-1	2.1.2-1
audacityteam	audacity	>= 0 < 2.1.2-1	2.1.2-1
audacityteam	audacity	>= 0 < 2.1.2-1	2.1.2-1
audacityteam	audacity	>= 0 < 2.1.2-1	2.1.2-1
debian	audacity	< audacity 2.1.2-1 (bookworm)	audacity 2.1.2-1 (bookworm)

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.05.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv5.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian5.5LOW

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