CVE-2021-40426 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2021-40426 at MITRE

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the sphere.c start_read() functionality of Sound Exchange libsox 14.4.2 and master commit 42b3557e. A specially-crafted file can lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
	CNA (Talos)	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10	10
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network	Network
Attack Complexity	Low	Low
Privileges Required	None	None
User Interaction	None	None
Scope	Changed	Changed
Confidentiality Impact	High	High
Integrity Impact	High	High
Availability Impact	High	High
CVSSv3 Version	3	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1200056 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2023:0328-1, published Thu Oct 26 18:57:26 2023
openSUSE-SU-2023:0329-1, published Thu Oct 26 18:57:26 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	`libsox3 >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1` `sox >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1` `sox-devel >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-328
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5	`libsox3 >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1` `sox >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1` `sox-devel >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-329
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`libsox3 >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1` `sox >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1` `sox-devel >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-328
openSUSE Leap 15.5	`libsox3 >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1` `sox >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1` `sox-devel >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-329
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`libsox3 >= 14.4.2-8.1` `sox >= 14.4.2-8.1` `sox-devel >= 14.4.2-8.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-13359

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Apr 15 06:00:42 2022
CVE page last modified: Wed Jun 25 11:57:24 2025