CVE-2017-15642
mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.49% (74th) EPSS
CVSS 4.3 · medium
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
5.5
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
v3.05.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6
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weaknesses
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affected products (4)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- sound exchange project sound exchange= 14.4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sound_exchange_project:sound_exchange:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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also known as (3)
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sources
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references (16)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02cnnvd
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/297/cnnvd
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/298/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/76270cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00042.htmlenisa_euvd
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