PT-2021-8101 · Sox+3 · Sox+3

Martin Guy · Published 2021-04-20 · Updated 2025-06-27 · CVE-2021-23172

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 startread() function in the hcom.c file. This issue is exploitable with a crafted hcomn file, which could cause an application to crash. The vulnerability is related to unchecked input data copying, 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

AZL-43585

AZL-44781

BDU:2024-07293

CVE-2021-23172

DLA-3315-1

DLA-3315-2

DSA-5356-1

DSA-5356-2

MGASA-2023-0059

OESA-2023-1931

USN-5904-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Linuxmint

Sox

Ubuntu

References · 48

• 🔥 https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350 · Exploit
• https://debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3315 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5904-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-44781 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23210 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23172 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-31650 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23172 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26590 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-13590 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34318 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2023-1931 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3643 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-5356-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-3315-1 · Vendor Advisory