Bug 2091798 (CVE-2021-40426) - CVE-2021-40426 sox: heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the sphere.c start_read() function
Summary: CVE-2021-40426 sox: heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the sp...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2021-40426
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2094686 2094687 2094688
Blocks: 2091808
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-05-31 05:46 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2022-07-01 12:07 UTC (History)
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A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the sphere.c start_read() functionality of the Sound Exchange sox library. A specially-crafted file can lead to a heap buffer overflow. This flaw allows an attacker to provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
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Last Closed: 2022-06-08 09:20:31 UTC
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Description Sandipan Roy 2022-05-31 05:46:00 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2022-06-08 07:59:26 UTC 
Created sox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-8 [bug 2094686]
Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2094687]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2094688]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-06-08 09:20:30 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-40426
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