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CVE-2004-0557: Sox: Buffer overflow

CVE-2004-0557 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Sox, along with 5 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

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.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Sox: 12.17.2; 12.17.3; 12.17.4
  • Conectiva Linux: 8.0; 9.0; 10.0
  • Gentoo Linux: 1.4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 3.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
  • Red Hat Fedora Core: core_1.0; core_2.0

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