Bug 1545866 (CVE-2017-18189) - CVE-2017-18189 sox: NULL pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c
Summary: CVE-2017-18189 sox: NULL pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-18189
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1545867 1553590 1553591
Blocks: 1545871
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-15 17:57 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 19:18:24 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2283 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:36:25 UTC

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
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