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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-23159): SoX vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-23159): SoX vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/25/2022
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A vulnerability was found in SoX, where a heap-buffer-overflow occurs in function lsx_read_w_buf() in formats_i.c file. The vulnerability is exploitable with a crafted file, that could cause an application to crash.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libsox2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libsox3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-sox

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