path: root/user/sox/CVE-2017-18189.patch

From 09d7388c8ad5701ed9c59d1d600ff6154b066397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 11:45:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] xa: validate channel count (CVE-2017-18189)

A corrupt header specifying zero channels would send read_channels()
into an infinite loop.  Prevent this by sanity checking the channel
count in open_read().  Also add an upper bound to prevent overflow
in multiplication.
---
 src/xa.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/xa.c b/src/xa.c
index 81a76772..9fc086ec 100644
--- a/src/xa.c
+++ b/src/xa.c
@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ static int startread(sox_format_t * ft)
         lsx_report("User options overriding rate read in .xa header");
     }
 
+    if (ft->signal.channels == 0 || ft->signal.channels > UINT16_MAX) {
+        lsx_fail_errno(ft, SOX_EFMT, "invalid channel count %d",
+                       ft->signal.channels);
+        return SOX_EOF;
+    }
+
     /* Check for supported formats */
     if (ft->encoding.bits_per_sample != 16) {
         lsx_fail_errno(ft, SOX_EFMT, "%d-bit sample resolution not supported.",
-- 
2.25.0