CVE-2017-18189 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/ https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans@mansr.com/raw

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5