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high 7.8

CVE-2023-34318 json

Heap-buffer-overflow in src/hcom.c

published 2023-07-10 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-38399

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in sox, in the startread function at sox/src/hcom.c:160:41. This flaw can lead to a denial of service, code execution, or information disclosure.

Patch / fix

  • sox Debian 13, Debian 12 14.4.2+git20190427-3.2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-34318

  • sox openSUSE Tumbleweed 14.4.2-8.1
  • sox Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1
  • sox Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13359-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0329-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0328-1

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-2023-34318 updated cvss 7.8

sox: heap-buffer-overflow in src/hcom.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sox
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) sox
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a sox
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Fedora Fedora
  • Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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