CVE-2017-18189

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-02-15
CWE:
CWE-119
Bugzilla:
1545866: CVE-2017-18189 sox: NULL pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c
A NULL pointer dereference flaw found in the way SoX handled processing of AIFF files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the SoX application by tricking it into processing crafted AIFF files.

Find out more about CVE-2017-18189 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 3.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sox Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sox Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sox Not affected

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