SoX 14.4.1 Heap Buffer Overflow

2014.12.25
Credit: vulnerability report received from the Google Security Team.
Risk: High
Local: No
Remote: No
CVE: CVE-2014-8145
CWE: CWE-119


CVSS Base Score: 7.5/10
Impact Subscore: 6.4/10
Exploitability Subscore: 10/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Low
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Partial
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: Partial

#2014-010 SoX input sanitization errors Description: The SoX project is an open source tool for sound processing. The sox command line tool is affected by two heap-based buffer overflows, respectively located in functions start_read() and AdpcmReadBlock(). A specially crafted wav file can be used to trigger the vulnerabilities. Affected version: SoX <= 14.4.1 Fixed version: SoX > 14.4.1 Credit: vulnerability report received from the Google Security Team. CVE: CVE-2014-8145 Timeline: 2014-11-20: vulnerability report received 2014-12-02: contacted maintainer 2014-12-13: patch provided by maintainer 2014-12-14: reporter confirms patch 2014-12-15: contacted affected vendors 2014-12-18: assigned CVE 2014-12-22: advisory release References: http://sox.sourceforge.net Permalink: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-010.html -- Andrea Barisani | Founder & Project Coordinator oCERT | OSS Computer Security Incident Response Team <lcars@ocert.org> http://www.ocert.org 0x864C9B9E 0A76 074A 02CD E989 CE7F AC3F DA47 578E 864C 9B9E "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate"


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