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CVE-2004-0557 in the critical feed json

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…

published 2004-08-02 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0556

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
25.1%
EPSS 25.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • sox Debian 13, Debian 12 12.17.4-9

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0557

  • sox RHEL 3 12.17.4-4.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:409

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-2004-0557 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 sox 12.17.4-4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 sox 12.17.4-4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 sox 12.17.4-4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 sox 12.17.4-4.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:409

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-369)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

25.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-374 SoX - '.wav' Local Buffer Overflow local, 2004-08-04
  • EDB-369 SoX - Local Buffer Overflow local, 2004-08-01
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10819 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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