Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-02-07 CWE: CWE-190 Bugzilla: 1678288: CVE-2019-8355 sox: integer overflow in xmalloc.h An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. In xmalloc.h, there is an integer overflow on the result of multiplication fed into the lsx_valloc macro that wraps malloc. When the buffer is allocated, it is smaller than expected, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in channels_start in remix.c.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-8355 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.9 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | Low |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | sox | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | sox | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | sox | Under investigation |
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