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CVE-2017-18189

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Date: February 15, 2018

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.

Language: Unix

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Related Resources (11)

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-18189
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18189
https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18189
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18189
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-18189

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Weakness Type (CWE)

NULL Pointer Dereference

CWE-476

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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