Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-18189  

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.

Severity Low

Remote No

Type Denial of service

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.

AVG-610 sox 14.4.2-1 14.4.2-3 Low Fixed FS#57485

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/20171109114554.16297-1-mans@mansr.com/raw