Buffer Overflow Affecting sox package, versions <14.4.2-r10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-SOX-8489553
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed25 Aug 2022

Introduced: 25 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-23159  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 sox to version 14.4.2-r10 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sox package and not the sox package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was found in SoX, where a heap-buffer-overflow occurs in function lsx_read_w_buf() in formats_i.c file. The vulnerability is exploitable with a crafted file, that could cause an application to crash.

CVSS Scores

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