CVE-2021-23172

Published Aug 25, 2022

Last updated 2 years ago

CVSS medium 5.5

Overview

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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 1.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com: CWE-120
nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:sox_project:sox:14.4.2-7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "D568262D-27C8-459D-8901-95F057CCB7F5"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References