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CVE-2019-8355
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-190
Description
An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. In xmalloc.h, there is an integer overflow on the result of multiplication fed into the lsx_valloc macro that wraps malloc. When the buffer is allocated, it is smaller than expected, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in channels_start in remix.c.
Affected products
- SoX (Sound eXchange): 14.4.2
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00040.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/320
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4079-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4079-2/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00040.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/320
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4079-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4079-2/
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