CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-23172

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-08-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2022-08-25
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-120, CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• sound exchange project sound exchange 14.4.2-7

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172 Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172 Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory

CVE-2021-23172

Description

Affected configurations

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

References