CVE-2017-18189

NameCVE-2017-18189
DescriptionIn 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.
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-1695-1
Debian Bugs881121

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+deb8u2DLA-1695-1
soxsourcestretch14.4.1-5+deb9u2
soxsource(unstable)14.4.2-2881121

Notes

https://github.com/mansr/sox/commit/7a8ceb86212b28243bbb6d0de636f0dfbe833e53
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