CVE-2017-18189

HIGH

Sound eXchange < 14.4.2 - Denial of Service via Corrupt Header in startread Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (6)

Core 6
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0515
EPSS Percentile 91.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
sound_exchange_project/sound_exchange < 14.4.2
Published Feb 15, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026