VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-15371
A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack during conversion of an audio file.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.63%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.63%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment() in formats.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack during conversion of an audio file.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.63% probability · 76th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-617
- Affected
- sound exchange project/sound exchange · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 2.7% on 21 September 2026 to 1.6% on 27 October 2026.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500570Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500570Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00043.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-02Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.