Vulnerability CVE-2017-18189
Published: 2018-02-15

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.

Type:

CWE-476

 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Soundexchange -> Sound exchange 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans@mansr.com/raw
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