CVE-2017-18189

In the startread function in xa.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) through 14.4.2, a corrupt header specifying zero channels triggers an infinite loop with a resultant NULL pointer dereference, which may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-15

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Sound Exchange (Sound Exchange Project)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DH…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7…
• https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw