Bug 1510918 (CVE-2017-15371) - CVE-2017-15371 sox: Reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment()
Summary: CVE-2017-15371 sox: Reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comm...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-15371
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1510925
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-08 12:51 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-06-06 13:19:11 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-11-08 12:51:13 UTC 
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment() in formats.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack during conversion of an audio file.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500570
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-11-08 12:57:33 UTC 
Created sox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1510925]
Comment 2 Jiri Kucera 2018-06-06 13:19:11 UTC 
Fixed in sox-14.4.2.0-14.fc26 and sox-14.4.2.0-14.fc27.
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