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CVE-2017-15642

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

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.

Affected products

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

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02
• https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/297/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/298/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02
• https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/297/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/298/

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