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CVE-2017-18189

CVE-2017-18189

EPSS 5.2%
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.
Affected products
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References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw