CVE-2017-11359

medium

Published 2017-07-31 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

The wavwritehdr function in wav.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted snd file, during conversion to a wav file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42398 dos linux

qflb.wu · 2017-07-31

Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`14.4.2-3`
debian	7.0	affected
debian	8.0	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`14.4.2-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`14.4.2-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`14.4.2-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
sound_exchange_project	sound_exchange	`14.4.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-369

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.