Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6837",
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    "title": "CVE-2017-6837",
    "summary": "WAVE.cpp in Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to a large number of coefficients.",
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      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/20/audiofile-multiple-ubsan-crashes/",
        "https://github.com/antlarr/audiofile/commit/c48e4c6503f7dabd41f11d4c9c7b7f8960e7f2c0",
        "https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues/41"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 442814,
  "published_at": "2017-03-20T16:59:02.937+00:00"
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