1207046 – (CVE-2021-23159) VUL-1: CVE-2021-23159: sox: heap based overflow in formats_i.c

Bug 1207046 (CVE-2021-23159) - VUL-1: CVE-2021-23159: sox: heap based overflow in formats_i.c

Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2021-23159: sox: heap based overflow in formats_i.c

Status:	NEW

Alias:	CVE-2021-23159

Product:	openSUSE Distribution
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Security (show other bugs)
Version:	Leap 15.5
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P4 - Low Severity: Normal (vote)
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Assignee:	Forgotten User GfSLLQGSl_
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/302853/
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Reported:	2023-01-11 11:31 UTC by Cathy Hu
Modified:	2023-01-11 12:15 UTC (History)
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Description Cathy Hu 2023-01-11 11:31:51 UTC

rh#1975671

A vulnerability was found in SoX, where a heap based overflow was found in  formats_i.c:376, function lsx_read_w_buf.

References:
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/352/

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975671
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-23159
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23159
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23159
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/352/
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23159

Comment 1 Cathy Hu 2023-01-11 11:32:07 UTC

No upstream fix yet, I don't think this is an important bug tbh

We ship it here:
- openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3/sox     14.4.2
- openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP4/sox     14.4.2
- openSUSE:Factory/sox                  14.4.2