Medium severity · published Aug 25, 2022
CVE-2021-23172
A vulnerability was found in SoX, where a heap-buffer-overflow occurs in function startread() in hcom.c file
5.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SE
Sound Exchange · Sound Exchange Project
14.4.2-7 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23172
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23172
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666
Third Party Advisory
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172
Exploit
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/
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