CVE-2017-18189

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.

References

https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3