SoX - Sound eXchange 14.4.2 and earlier is affected by: Out-of-bounds Read.

published 2019-07-15 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-1756

cvss: 5.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits: 0; none known

SoX - Sound eXchange 14.4.2 and earlier is affected by: Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: Denial of Service. The component is: read_samples function at xa.c:219. The attack vector is: Victim must open specially crafted .xa file. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2017-18189.

Patch / fix

distros 1

sox Debian 13, Debian 12 14.4.2-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1010004

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-1010004 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 3.3

sox: OOB read in function read_samples in xa.c:219 causing denial of service

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sox
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sox
affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/299/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	5.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

Sourceforge SoX - Sound eXchange

Classification

Weakness

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

References

sourceforge.net /p/sox/bugs/299/
exploit, third-party-advisory
sourceforge.net /p/sox/code/ci/master/tree/src/xa.c#l219
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-1010004
NVD CVE-2019-1010004

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Summary