cve-2017-18189
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-15 10:00
Modified
2024-08-05 21:13
Severity ?
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/
cve@mitre.orghttps://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw
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