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CVE-2021-40426 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (sox), 3 status rows across 3 suites (bookworm, bullseye, trixie): resolved 3.
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the sphere.c start_read() functionality of Sound Exchange libsox 14.4.2 and master commit 42b3557e. A specially-crafted file can lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.