UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23172

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23172

    Published: 25 Aug 2022Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-23172
    Aliases:
    USN-5904-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23172, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666, https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172, https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5904-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23172

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: sox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm2?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm2

    Affected versions

    14.4.1-3
    14.4.1-3ubuntu1
    14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1
    14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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