PT-2017-14134 · Sound Exchange+1 · Sox+1

Kirit Sankar Gupta · CVE-2017-15642 · Published 2017-10-19 · Updated 2024-06-15

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 triggered by supplying a malformed AIFF file to the lsx aiffstartread function in the aiff.c file, resulting in a Use-After-Free vulnerability.

Recommendations For version 14.4.2, consider avoiding the use of malformed AIFF files until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of AIFF files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2024-6289

ALT-PU-2024-6378

ALT-PU-2024-6855

ALT-PU-2024-6966

AZL-43615

AZL-45417

CVE-2017-15642

DLA-1197-1

DLA-1695-1

MGASA-2018-0211

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0489-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0493-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11394-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Sox

References · 37

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15642 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15642 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-43615 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15642 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15642 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:0493-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-45417 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15642 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:0489-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15642 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15642 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0211.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1695-1 · Vendor Advisory