CVE-2021-40426

Name
CVE-2021-40426
Description
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.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1434
talos-cna@cisco.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/03/3
talos-cna@cisco.com https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00009.html
talos-cna@cisco.com https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5356

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:libsox_project:libsox:14.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* libsox == None == 14.4.2
cpe:2.3:a:sound_exchange_project:sound_exchange:14.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* sound_exchange == None == 14.4.2

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
sox edge-community 14.4.2-r10 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
sox 3.22-community 14.4.2-r10 None fixed
sox 3.21-community 14.4.2-r10 None fixed
sox 3.20-community 14.4.2-r10 None fixed
sox 3.19-community 14.4.2-r10 None fixed
sox 3.18-community 14.4.2-r10 None fixed