CVE-2017-15371 - Reachable Assertion

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

In the excerpt below, an AssertionError (an unchecked exception) is thrown if the user hasn't entered an email address in an HTML form.


               
assert email != null;

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-10-16 04:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Sound eXchange 14.4.2

14.4.2

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500570

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20171130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1197-1] sox security update

Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20190305 [SECURITY] [DLA 1705-1] sox security update

Third Party Advisory

GLSA-201810-02

Third Party Advisory

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