CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18189
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• sound exchange project sound exchange (<= 14.4.2)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw public-inbox.org
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw public-inbox.org