{"id":"CVE-2017-18189","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-16T01:38:37.279233375Z","published":"2018-02-15T10:29:00.617Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2018:0489-1","openSUSE-SU-2018:0493-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:11394-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/62RARFRXGKPNNFFNVDV7DHJSOKAIZ3CX/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EUKFZQSZG2ABMTAMOGBMY7MJNSGEIYTL/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans%40mansr.com/raw"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"14.4.2"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18189.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}