Bug 1200056 - (CVE-2021-40426) VUL-0: CVE-2021-40426: sox: heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the sphere.c start_read() function
(CVE-2021-40426)
VUL-0: CVE-2021-40426: sox: heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists i...
Status: NEW
Classification: openSUSE
Product: openSUSE Distribution
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Security
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Assigned To: Pavol Rusnak
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https://smash.suse.de/issue/329156/
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Reported: 2022-05-31 08:19 UTC by Hu
Modified: 2022-05-31 09:15 UTC (History)
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Description Hu 2022-05-31 08:19:12 UTC
rh#2091798

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.

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1434

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091798
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-40426
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-40426
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-40426/
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1434
Comment 1 Hu 2022-05-31 08:23:47 UTC
Affected:
- openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3/sox 14.4.2
- openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP4/sox 14.4.2
- openSUSE:Factory/sox              14.4.2