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CVE-2017-15371

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

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.

Affected products

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

References

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

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