Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sox  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SOX-2993953
  • published27 Aug 2022
  • disclosed25 Aug 2022

Introduced: 25 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-23172  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sox package and not the sox package as distributed by Debian.

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