CVE-2021-23172

medium

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.

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/

https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-08-25

Updated: 2023-02-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium