CVE-2017-18189 log

Source
Severity Low
Remote No
Type Denial of service
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.
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-610 sox 14.4.2-1 14.4.2-3 Low Fixed FS#57485
References
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans@mansr.com/raw