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.

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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1197-1 sox security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1705-1 sox security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-2988 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.
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Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01581}

epss

{'score': 0.03304}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:05:30.566Z

Reserved: 2017-07-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-11359

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-07-31T13:29:01.097

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-11359

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-07-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-11359 - Bugzilla

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