CVE-2021-23159

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-120 CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	SoX (Sound eXchange)	Not Known

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23159Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975671Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23159Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/352/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23159Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975671Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23159Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/352/Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 25, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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