vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-23172: sox -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 25, 2022
Added
Feb 13, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-sox
Title
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