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CVE-2017-11359

Date: July 31, 2017

The wavwritehdr function in wav.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted snd file, during conversion to a wav file.

Language: Unix

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-11359

Url: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42398/

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11359

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11359

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00007.html

Url: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/81

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11359

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-11359

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Divide By Zero

CWE-369

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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