CVE-2014-8145

Exp

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted WAV file to the (1) start_read or (2) AdpcmReadBlock function.

Published: 2014-12-31 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-8145 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.8/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.71%, 94th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-8145

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-8145

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 13.00% 7.71% -5.29%
2 2025-07-12 16.28% 13.00% -3.29%
3 2025-04-11 — 16.28% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-8145

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-8145

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-8145

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-8145 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (sox), 3 status rows across 3 suites (bookworm, bullseye, trixie): resolved 3. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8145
gentoo normal CVE-2014-8145: 1 GLSA(s) (201612-30), 1 atom(s) (media-sound/sox); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-8145
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8145
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-8145 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sox), 13 status rows across 13 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 7, ignored 3, released 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8145

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-8145

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sound_exchange_project sound_exchange <= 14.4.1 cpe:2.3:a:sound_exchange_project:sound_exchange:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle solaris 11.2 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-8145

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