CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-34253

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.52%

40th percentile - higher than 40% of all known CVEs

Summary

A buffer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the ogg123 utility from the vorbis-tools 1.4.3 package in function remotethread in remote.c. This vulnerability occurs in the remote control functionality when processing malformed input, leading to a stack buffer underflow that can cause application crashes and potentially allow code execution.

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization includes potential remote code execution by an attacker, which could lead to system compromise, data loss, or service disruption.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the vorbis-tools package to the latest available version that addresses this vulnerability. Until the update is applied, restrict access to the remote control functionality of the ogg123 utility.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A buffer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the ogg123 utility from the vorbis-tools 1.4.3 package in function remotethread in remote.c. This vulnerability occurs in the remote control functionality when processing malformed input, leading to a stack buffer underflow that can cause application crashes and potentially allow code execution.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS