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GHSA-mw59-4c4c-6hhr
GHSA-mw59-4c4c-6hhr
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published August 26, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- Aug 26, 2022 CVE Published
- May 1, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23172 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666 url
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350 url
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172 url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00009.html url
- https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/03/3 url