Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-23172
CVE-2021-23172
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.
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References
4- sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172nvdThird Party Advisory
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