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Red Hat: CVE-2017-18189: Low: sox security update (RHSA-2019:2283)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-18189: Low: sox security update (RHSA-2019:2283)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/15/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-sox
  • redhat-upgrade-sox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-sox-devel

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