Vulnerabilites related to Sound Exchange - libsox
CVE-2021-40426 (GCVE-0-2021-40426)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-04-14 19:56
Modified
2025-04-15 19:07
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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
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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Sound Exchange | libsox |
Version: 14.4.2 Version: master commit 42b3557e |
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