VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-23172
A vulnerability was found in SoX, where a heap-buffer-overflow occurs in function startread() in hcom.c file.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.45%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.45%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.45% probability · 38th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-120, CWE-787
- Affected
- sound exchange project/sound exchange
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.