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ghsa-5x4j-m9qh-g9w5

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-04-15 00:00

Modified

2022-04-26 00:01

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-5x4j-m9qh-g9w5",
  "modified": "2022-04-26T00:01:05Z",
  "published": "2022-04-15T00:00:38Z",
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    },
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      "url": "https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1434"
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CVE-2021-40426 (GCVE-0-2021-40426)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-04-14 19:56

Modified

2025-04-15 19:07

Severity ?

10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1434
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/03/3	mailing-list
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00009.html	mailing-list
	https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5356	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Sound Exchange	libsox	Version: 14.4.2 Version: master commit 42b3557e

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