CVE-2017-18189
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18189
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18189.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-18189
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-02-15T10:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-04T19:42:03.748343Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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
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- 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://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
- 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