Reachable Assertion Affecting sox package, versions <14.4.1-5+deb9u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-SOX-292336
  • published16 Oct 2017
  • disclosed16 Oct 2017

Introduced: 16 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 sox to version 14.4.1-5+deb9u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sox package and not the sox package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment() in formats.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.