Stack-based buffer overflow in SoX - CVE-2019-8356

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper protection on an argument passed to the bitrv2 function, as defined in the fft4g.c source code file of the affected software. A remote attacker can trick the victim into executing a file that submits malicious input to the targeted system with the sox command, trigger a stack-based buffer overflow condition and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2019-8356

External References

• https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/321/

Related Security Bulletins

• Denial of service in SoX
• Ubuntu update for SoX
• Stack-based buffer overflow in sox (Alpine package)
• openEuler update for sox