CVE-2017-18189
HIGH7.5EPSS 5.7%Published: 2/15/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18189
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/soxfrom 0, < 14.4.2-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |