ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-18189
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189
Upstream
Published
2018-02-15T10:29:00Z
Modified
2026-11-03T06:30:47Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.11
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.12
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.13
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.14
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.15
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.16
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.17
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.18
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.19
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.20
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.21
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.22
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.23
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"
Alpine:v3.24
sox

Package

Name
sox
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sox?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
14.4.2-r5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18189.json"