Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting sox package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.1% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SOX-2993229
  • published26 Aug 2022
  • disclosed26 Aug 2022
  • credittreebacker

Introduced: 26 Aug 2022

CVE-2021-23159  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for sox.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function lsx_read_w_buf() in formats_i.c file. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by a crafted file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1