What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-111157: SoX through 14.4.2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Write via MS ADPCM WAV Decoding

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-15 · updated 2026-10-16
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

SoX through 14.4.2 contains a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in lsx_ms_adpcm_block_expand_i() in src/adpcm.c, triggered by an odd samplesPerBlock value in the WAV fmt chunk. Attackers can supply a crafted MS ADPCM WAV file to sox or any libsox consumer to write a partially controlled 16-bit sample past the heap buffer allocated by wav_ms_adpcm_fmt().

Affected products

• sox: through 14.4.2

References

• https://github.com/chirlu/sox/blob/42b3557e13e0fe01a83465b672d89faddbe65f49/src/adpcm.c#L144-L166
• https://github.com/chirlu/sox/blob/42b3557e13e0fe01a83465b672d89faddbe65f49/src/wav.c#L250-L251
• https://hackmd.io/@haind-pwn/sox-wav-ms-adpcm-samplesperblock-oob-write
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sox-through-14.4.2-heap-out-of-bounds-write-via-ms-adpcm-wav-decoding

Get alerted when CVE-2026-111157 or the next vulnerability affects your stack