Division by zero in SoX - CVE-2017-11359

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Division by zero in SoX - CVE-2017-11359

Published: July 31, 2017 / Updated: July 29, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32016
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11359
CWE-ID: CWE-369
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

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 wavwritehdr 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 snd file, during conversion to a wav file.


Affected software

SoX
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
sox (Alpine package)
sox

How to mitigate CVE-2017-11359

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

sox (Alpine package) - update to 14.4.2-r5
sox - addressed in versions 14.4.2.0-22.fc27, 14.4.2.0-22.fc28

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