Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU33437

Use-after-free - CVE-2017-15642

Published: October 19, 2017 / Updated: August 4, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU33437

CSH Severity: Low

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-2017-15642

CWE-ID: CWE-416

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

In lsx_aiffstartread in aiff.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2, there is a Use-After-Free vulnerability triggered by supplying a malformed AIFF file.

Gentoo Linux
Fedora
sox (Alpine package)
sox

Install update from vendor's website.

sox (Alpine package) - update to 14.4.2-r5
sox - addressed in versions 14.4.2.0-16.fc26, 14.4.2.0-16.fc27, 14.4.2.0-17.fc26