Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-15642 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1695.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SoX (Sound eXchange), a sound processing program : CVE-2017-15370 The ImaAdpcmReadBlock function (src/wav.c) is affected by a heap buffer overflow. This vulnerability might be leveraged by remote attackers using a crafted WAV file to cause denial of service (application crash). CVE-2017-15372 The lsx_ms_adpcm_block_expand_i function (adpcm.c) is affected by a stack based buffer overflow. This vulnerability might be leveraged by remote attackers using a crafted audio file to cause denial of service (application crash). CVE-2017-15642 The lsx_aiffstartread function (aiff.c) is affected by a use-after-free vulnerability. This flaw might be leveraged by remote attackers using a crafted AIFF file to cause denial of service (application crash). CVE-2017-18189 The startread function (xa.c) is affected by a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. This flaw might be leveraged by remote attackers using a crafted Maxis XA audio file to cause denial of service (application crash). For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 122512 published 2019-03-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122512 title Debian DLA-1695-1 : sox security update NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201810-02.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201810-02 (SoX: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SoX. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact : A remote attacker, by enticing a user to process a crafted WAV, HCOM, SND, or AIFF file, could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117967 published 2018-10-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117967 title GLSA-201810-02 : SoX: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1197.NASL description Various security vulnerabilities were discovered in sox, a command line utility to convert audio formats, that may lead to a denial of service (application crash / infinite loop) or memory corruptions by processing a malformed input file. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2017-12-01 plugin id 104939 published 2017-12-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/104939 title Debian DLA-1197-1 : sox security update NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-AA1BF1711D.NASL description *SOX_PLUGINS* environment variable, added in *sox-14.4.2.0-16* to allow overriding standard *sox* path to plugins for the test purposes, is no longer exposed to user. ---- Security fix for **CVE-2017-15372**, **CVE-2017-15642**. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-02-21 plugin id 106913 published 2018-02-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106913 title Fedora 26 : sox (2018-aa1bf1711d) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-EC93095A73.NASL description Security fix for **CVE-2017-15372**, **CVE-2017-15642**. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-02-15 plugin id 106830 published 2018-02-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106830 title Fedora 27 : sox (2018-ec93095a73) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-185.NASL description This update for sox fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-11332: Fixed the startread function in wav.c, which allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS (divide-by-zero) via a crafted wav file. (boo#1081140) - CVE-2017-11358: Fixed the read_samples function in hcom.c, which allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS (invalid memory read) via a crafted hcom file. (boo#1081141) - CVE-2017-11359: Fixed the wavwritehdr function in wav.c, which allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS (divide-by-zero) when converting a a crafted snd file to a wav file. (boo#1081142) - CVE-2017-15370: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in the ImaExpandS function of ima_rw.c, which allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS during conversion of a crafted audio file. (boo#1063439) - CVE-2017-15371: Fixed an assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment() in formats.c, which allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS during conversion of a crafted audio file. (boo#1063450) - CVE-2017-15372: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the lsx_ms_adpcm_block_expand_i function of adpcm.c, which allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS during conversion of a crafted audio file. (boo#1063456) - CVE-2017-15642: Fixed an Use-After-Free vulnerability in lsx_aiffstartread in aiff.c, which could be triggered by an attacker by providing a malformed AIFF file. (boo#1064576) - CVE-2017-18189: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference triggered by a corrupt header specifying zero channels in the startread function in xa.c, which allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS (boo#1081146). last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-02-21 plugin id 106917 published 2018-02-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106917 title openSUSE Security Update : sox (openSUSE-2018-185)
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/297/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/297/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/298/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/298/