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CVE-2021-23172

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.

Published

2022-08-25T20:15:08.977

Last Modified

2025-06-27T18:51:27.923

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-120
Type: Secondary
CWE-787

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	sound_exchange_project	sound_exchange	14.4.2-7	Yes

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)