CVE-2017-15642

MEDIUM

Sound eXchange 14.4.2 - Use-After-Free in AIFF File Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In lsx_aiffstartread in aiff.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2, there is a Use-After-Free vulnerability triggered by supplying a malformed AIFF file.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/298/
Mailing List, 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
Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/297/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0149
EPSS Percentile 71.1%
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-416
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
sound_exchange_project/sound_exchange 14.4.2
Published Oct 19, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026