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1 vulnerability by Sound Exchange
CVE-2021-40426 (GCVE-0-2021-40426)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-14 19:56 – Updated: 2025-04-15 19:07
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
10 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound Exchange | libsox |
Affected:
14.4.2
Affected: master commit 42b3557e |
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