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CVE-2021-23159

Publication date 25 August 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

A vulnerability was found in SoX, where a heap-buffer-overflow occurs in function lsx_read_w_buf() in formats_i.c file. The vulnerability is exploitable with a crafted file, that could cause an application to crash.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sox 24.10 oracular
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 14.4.2+git20190427-3ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u1build0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 14.4.2-3ubuntu0.18.04.2
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H