PT-2021-8099 · Sox+4 · Sox+4

Treebacker · Published 2021-04-20 · Updated 2025-06-27 · CVE-2021-23159

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SoX (affected versions not specified)

Description A heap-buffer-overflow occurs in the lsx read w buf() function in the formats i.c file. This issue is exploitable with a crafted file, which could cause an application to crash. The vulnerability is related to the lack of input validation, allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-120

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2024-6289

ALT-PU-2024-6378

ALT-PU-2024-6855

ALT-PU-2024-6966

AZL-43504

AZL-45324

BDU:2024-07291

CVE-2021-23159

DLA-3315-1

DLA-3315-2

DSA-5356-1

DSA-5356-2

MGASA-2023-0059

OESA-2023-1931

OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0328-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0329-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13359-1

USN-5904-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Astra Linux

Linuxmint

Sox

Ubuntu

References · 69

• 🔥 https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/352 · Exploit
• https://debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3315 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5904-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23159 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-13590 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34318 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3643 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-3315-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2023:0329-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se17-bulletin-2023-0303SE17MD · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-45324 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-33844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-31651 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23159 · Security Note