CVE-2017-15371

MEDIUM

Sound eXchange 14.4.2 - Denial of Service via Reachable Assertion in sox_append_comment

Title source: llm

Description

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment() in formats.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack during conversion of an audio file.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02

Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00007.html

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500570

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0163

EPSS Percentile 73.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-617

Status published

Products (3)

debian/debian_linux 7.0

debian/debian_linux 8.0

sound_exchange_project/sound_exchange 14.4.2

Published Oct 16, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026