CVE-2017-11359 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-11359?

CVE-2017-11359 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 31 Jul 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-11359?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Sound Exchange Project Sound Exchange.

How do I fix CVE-2017-11359?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-11359 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-11359 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CVE-2022-50798, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11359, GHSA-qcrg-ppmg-4fm2, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11359.