High severity · published Feb 15, 2018
CVE-2017-18189
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…
7.5
CVSS
5.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.1% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
SE
Sound Exchange · Sound Exchange Project
through 14.4.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18189
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18189
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
Exploit
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/
public-inbox.org
https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw
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