Division by zero in SoX - CVE-2017-11332
Published: July 31, 2017 / Updated: July 29, 2020
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to divide-by-zero error within The startread function in wav.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted wav file.
Affected software
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
sox (Alpine package)
sox
How to mitigate CVE-2017-11332
sox - addressed in versions 14.4.2.0-22.fc27, 14.4.2.0-22.fc28