CVE-2019-8355
sox: integer overflow in xmalloc.h
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · February 7, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. In xmalloc.h, there is an integer overflow on the result of multiplication fed into the lsx_valloc macro that wraps malloc. When the buffer is allocated, it is smaller than expected, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in channels_start in remix.c.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 4CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound