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CVE-2021-23172

Date: August 25, 2022

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23172
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-23172
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00009.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/03/3
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23172
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-23172

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CWE-120

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

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