CVE-2004-0557

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Multiple buffer overflows in the st_wavstartread function in wav.c for Sound eXchange (SoX) 12.17.2 through 12.17.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain WAV file header fields.

Multiple buffer overflows in the st_wavstartread function in wav.c for Sound eXchange (SoX) 12.17.2 through 12.17.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain WAV file header fields.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-08-06 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Conectiva Conectiva Linux 8.0

8.0

Conectiva Linux 9.0

9.0

Conectiva Linux 10.0

10.0

Gentoo Linux 1.4

1.4

Red Hat Desktop 3.0

3.0

References

20040728 SoX buffer overflows when handling .WAV files

CLA-2004:855

FEDORA-2004-235

FEDORA-2004-244

20040728 SoX buffer overflows when handling .WAV files

12175

DSA-565

GLSA-200407-23

Vendor Advisory

MDKSA-2004:076

RHSA-2004:409

Patch, Vendor Advisory

10819

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

FLSA:1945

sox-wav-bo(16827)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9801

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