CVE-2017-11359

medium

Description

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.

References

Advisories
More

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

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

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

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-2988

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-07-31

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H