CVE-2017-15045

medium

Published 2017-10-06 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

LAME 3.99, 3.99.1, 3.99.2, 3.99.3, 3.99.4, 3.99.5, 3.98.4, 3.98.2 and 3.98 has a heap-based buffer over-read in fill_buffer in libmp3lame/util.c, related to lame_encode_buffer_sample_t in libmp3lame/lame.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-9410.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`3.100-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.99.5+repack1-8`
sid	Fixed	`3.99.5+repack1-8`
forky	Fixed	`3.99.5+repack1-8`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.99.5+repack1-8`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.99.5+repack1-8`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
lame_project	lame	`3.99.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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