CVE-2021-40426

State: Published
Severity: 10.0 Critical
Published: Apr 14, 2022
Updated: Apr 15, 2025
Reserved: Sep 1, 2021

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the sphere.c start_read() functionality of Sound Exchange libsox 14.4.2 and master commit 42b3557e. A specially-crafted file can lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	10.0 Critical	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	talos

Weaknesses

CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
libsoxSound Exchange	14.4.2Affected master commit 42b3557eAffected

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1434
[oss-security] 20230203 sox: patches for old vulnerabilitiesmailing-list
[debian-lts-announce] 20230210 [SECURITY] [DLA 3315-1] sox security updatemailing-list
DSA-5356vendor-advisory

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