CVE-2004-0557

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 25.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the st_wavstartread function in wav.c for Sound eXchange (SoX) 12.17.2 through 12.17.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain WAV file header fields.

Affected products

Conectiva Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
gentoo Linux: 1.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 3.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
RedHat Fedora Core: core_1.0, core_2.0
sox: 12.17.2, 12.17.3, 12.17.4

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q3/0014.html
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000855
http://lwn.net/Articles/95529/
http://lwn.net/Articles/95530/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2004/Jul/1227.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/12175
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-565
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-23.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:076
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-409.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10819
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1945

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