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CVE-2023-34318: Heap-buffer-overflow in src/hcom.c

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in sox, in the startread function at sox/src/hcom.c:160:41. This flaw can lead to a denial of service, code execution, or information disclosure.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 38
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• SoX (Sound eXchange): 14.4.3

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34318
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212283
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34318
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212283

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