Use After Free Affecting sox package, versions <14.4.2-2
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.16% (54th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SOX-292328
- published 19 Oct 2017
- disclosed 19 Oct 2017
Introduced: 19 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15642 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable sox to version 14.4.2-2 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
In lsx_aiffstartread in aiff.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2, there is a Use-After-Free vulnerability triggered by supplying a malformed AIFF file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15642
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/297/
- 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://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/298/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-15642