CVE-2017-15371

NameCVE-2017-15371
DescriptionThere is a reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment() in formats.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack during conversion of an audio file.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1197-1, DLA-1705-1
Debian Bugs878809

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
sox (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2fixed
bookworm14.4.2+git20190427-3.5fixed
forky, sid, trixie14.4.2+git20190427-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
soxsourcewheezy14.4.0-3+deb7u2DLA-1197-1
soxsourcejessie14.4.1-5+deb8u3DLA-1705-1
soxsourcestretch14.4.1-5+deb9u2
soxsource(unstable)14.4.2-2878809

Notes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500570
https://github.com/mansr/sox/commit/818bdd0ccc1e5b6cae742c740c17fd414935cf39
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