Vulnerability in aubio (CVE-2017-17554)
Summary
Vulnerability in aubio (CVE-2017-17554). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.4.7 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A NULL pointer dereference (DoS) Vulnerability was found in the function aubio_source_avcodec_readframe in io/source_avcodec.c of aubio 0.4.6, which may lead to DoS when playing a crafted audio file.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-17554 has been found in aubio.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10.
What to do: upgrade aubio to 0.4.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "aubio CVE-2017-17554" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2017-17554 (aubio) — CWE-476 / CVSS v3 5.5
Attack vector: local / unauthenticated
Patched: 0.4.7 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-476) exists in aubio.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of aubio.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.4.7.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'aubio' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'aubio' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
aubioを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade aubio to 0.4.7ステージング環境で 0.4.7 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17554 aubio Fixed in: 0.4.6-1
References
- advisory github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com