CVE-2017-18189

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
5.714

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
(RHSA-2019:2283)Low: security update sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:2283)Low: security update sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
Sox update (ELSA-2019-2283) sox-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpmLinux
Sox update (ELSA-2019-2283) sox-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234