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CVE-2021-3643: 1980626 – (CVE-2021-3643) CVE-2021-3643 sox: buffer overflow read vulnerability
A flaw was found in sox 14.4.1. The lsx_adpcm_init function within libsox leads to a global-buffer-overflow. This flaw allows an attacker to input a malicious file, leading to the disclosure of sensitive information.
Comment 1 gkamathe 2021-07-12 06:23:38 UTC
While reproducing original reported CVE-2021-23210 which was for a FPE [1], we encountered this global-buffer-overflow (READ) issue which was triggerred using the same reproducer, this issue lies in the libsox component as well hence requesting a different CVE for this issue so it can be tracked accordingly
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/351/
Comment 3 gkamathe 2021-08-12 16:27:53 UTC
Created sox tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: epel-8 [bug 1993269] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1993268]
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