CVE-2017-18189

low

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

2.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18189

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18189.html

OS impact

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

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18189.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18189

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