Bug 1545866 (CVE-2017-18189)

Summary:	CVE-2017-18189 sox: NULL pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	felix, hhorak, hobbes1069, jkucera, jmoskovc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A NULL pointer dereference flaw found in the way SoX handled processing of AIFF files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the SoX application by tricking it into processing crafted AIFF files.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-08-06 19:18:24 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1545867, 1553590, 1553591
Bug Blocks:	1545871

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-02-15 17:57:24 UTC

In the startread function in xa.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) through 14.4.2, a corrupt header specifying zero channels triggers a NULL pointer dereference, which may allow an attacker to cause denial-of-service via a specially crafted file.

External References:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121

Patch:

https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans@mansr.com/raw

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-02-15 17:57:53 UTC

Created sox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1545867]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:36:24 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2283 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 19:18:24 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-18189