NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sox  (opens in a new tab)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-292358
  • published15 Feb 2018
  • disclosed15 Feb 2018

Introduced: 15 Feb 2018

CVE-2017-18189  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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.

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.