CVE-2017-18189

Publication date 15 February 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain media files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sox 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 14.4.1-5ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H