CVE-2021-23159
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-25 19:35
Modified
2024-08-03 18:58
Severity ?
Summary
A vulnerability was found in SoX, where a heap-buffer-overflow occurs in function lsx_read_w_buf() in formats_i.c file. The vulnerability is exploitable with a crafted file, that could cause an application to crash.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23159Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975671Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23159Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/352/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23159Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975671Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23159Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/352/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a SoX (Sound eXchange) Version: Not Known
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