Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sox (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-SOX-11768390
- published10 Aug 2025
- disclosed16 Oct 2017
Introduced: 16 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15372 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:14.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sox package and not the sox package as distributed by Debian.
There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the lsx_ms_adpcm_block_expand_i function of adpcm.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack during conversion of an audio file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15372
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15372
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500553
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-15372