| Name | CVE-2017-15371 |
| Description | There is a reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment() in formats.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack during conversion of an audio file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1197-1, DLA-1705-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 878809 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| sox (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 14.4.1-5+deb8u7 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 14.4.1-5+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 14.4.2+git20190427-1+deb10u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 14.4.2+git20190427-3.5 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 14.4.2+git20190427-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| sox | source | wheezy | 14.4.0-3+deb7u2 | | DLA-1197-1 | |
| sox | source | jessie | 14.4.1-5+deb8u3 | | DLA-1705-1 | |
| sox | source | stretch | 14.4.1-5+deb9u2 | | | |
| sox | source | (unstable) | 14.4.2-2 | | | 878809 |
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500570
https://github.com/mansr/sox/commit/818bdd0ccc1e5b6cae742c740c17fd414935cf39