Vulnerability · Published Nov 10, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-23904

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the speex package (Ubuntu). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 54% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 45.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A stack buffer overflow in speexenc.c of Speex v1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via a crafted WAV file. NOTE: the vendor states "I cannot reproduce it" and it "is a demo program.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	speex	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2020-23904

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/xiph/speex/issues/14 x_refsource_MISC