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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-18189): sox vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 15, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-sox
Title
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