CVE-2017-18189

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    CVE-2017-18189

    Published: 15 Feb 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121

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