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CVE-2017-11359

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-369

Description

The wavwritehdr function in wav.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted snd file, during conversion to a wav file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• SoX (Sound eXchange): 14.4.2

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/81
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42398/
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/81
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42398/

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