Integer overflow in SoX - CVE-2019-8355

Vulnerability identifier: #VU17769

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-8355

CWE-ID: CWE-190

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in xmalloc.h when handling malicious input. 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 heap-based buffer overflow condition channels_start in remix.c and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

SoX
sox (Ubuntu package)
sox (Alpine package)
sox
sox-debuginfo
sox-debugsource
sox-devel
sox-help
openEuler

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

sox (Ubuntu package) - update to 14.4.2-3ubuntu0.19.04.1
sox (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 14.4.2-r3, 14.4.2-r5
sox - update to 14.4.2.0-31
sox-debuginfo - update to 14.4.2.0-31
sox-debugsource - update to 14.4.2.0-31
sox-devel - update to 14.4.2.0-31
sox-help - update to 14.4.2.0-31

• https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/320

• Denial of service in SoX
• Ubuntu update for SoX
• Integer overflow in sox (Alpine package)
• openEuler update for sox