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sox — security advisory
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.
- Products
- sox
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 14.4.2+git20190427-3.2
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-34318
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-34318
sox
Fixed versions: 14.4.2+git20190427-3.2
sox
Fixed versions: 14.4.2+git20190427-3.2
Complete source record
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