CVE-2021-23172

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (5.5) in sound exchange project sound exchange. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-120, CWE-787
Published: 2022-08-25
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

sound_exchange_project:sound_exchange

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975666
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23172
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/350/
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23172

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