Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sox  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SOX-292340
  • 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)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

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 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.