PT-2017-14029 · Sox+1 · Sound Exchange+1

Published 2017-10-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-15371

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sound eXchange (SoX) version 14.4.2

Description The issue is related to a reachable assertion abort in the function sox append comment() in formats.c. It can be triggered by a crafted input, leading to a denial of service attack during the conversion of an audio file.

Recommendations For Sound eXchange (SoX) version 14.4.2, consider avoiding the use of the sox append comment() function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the conversion of audio files to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Assertion Failure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-617

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2024-6289

ALT-PU-2024-6378

ALT-PU-2024-6855

ALT-PU-2024-6966

AZL-43765

AZL-44322

CVE-2017-15371

DLA-1197-1

DLA-1705-1

MGASA-2018-0105

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0489-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0493-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11394-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Sound Exchange

References · 37

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500570 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15371 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15371 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15371 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15371 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:0493-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:0489-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0105.html · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/LU6OQGTJOLIFAOPHQI6CPLGMN4KKMLIX · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0105 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-43765 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15371 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15371 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15371 · Vendor Advisory