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CVE-2014-9638 (GCVE-0-2014-9638)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-01-23 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:47
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Summary
oggenc in vorbis-tools 1.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and crash) via a WAV file with the number of channels set to zero.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2014-12-29 00:00
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