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CVE-2017-18189
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2018-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-476
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.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- SoX (Sound eXchange): through 14.4.2
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/
- https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/
- https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw
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