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CVE-2017-15642

Date: October 19, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (10)

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

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15642

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15642

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15642

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html

Url: https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/297/

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-15642

Url: https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/298/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-15642

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use After Free

CWE-416

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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