CVE-2017-15046

Exp

LAME 3.99.5, 3.99.4, 3.98.4, 3.98.2, 3.98 and 3.97 have a stack-based buffer overflow in unpack_read_samples in frontend/get_audio.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-9412.

Published: 2017-10-06 Last update: 2026-05-13 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2017-15046 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.18%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2017-15046

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-15046

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.27% 0.18% -0.09%
2 2025-03-29 0.18% 0.27% +0.09%
3 2025-03-17 — 0.18% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2017-15046

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2017-15046

OS Trackers for CVE-2017-15046

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2017-15046 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (lame), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15046
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15046
ubuntu low CVE-2017-15046 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (lame), 21 status rows across 21 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 18, ignored 1, needed 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15046

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2017-15046

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
lame_project lame 3.97 cpe:2.3:a:lame_project:lame:3.97:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
lame_project lame 3.98 cpe:2.3:a:lame_project:lame:3.98:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
lame_project lame 3.98.2 cpe:2.3:a:lame_project:lame:3.98.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
lame_project lame 3.98.4 cpe:2.3:a:lame_project:lame:3.98.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
lame_project lame 3.99.4 cpe:2.3:a:lame_project:lame:3.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
lame_project lame 3.99.5 cpe:2.3:a:lame_project:lame:3.99.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2017-15046

URL Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/479/ Exploit Third Party Advisory
cvelogic Threat Intelligence