debian · CVE-2017-18189

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:01:32 GMT

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CVE-2017-18189 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (sox), 3 status rows across 3 suites (bookworm, bullseye, trixie): resolved 3.

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.

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