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CVE-2014-8145 json

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a cra…

published 2014-12-31 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-7987

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.7%
EPSS 7.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted WAV file to the (1) start_read or (2) AdpcmReadBlock function.

Patch / fix

  • sox Debian 13, Debian 12 14.4.2-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8145

  • sox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1
  • sox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 14.4.1-5ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8145

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2014-8145 updated cvss 6.8

sox: two heap out-of-bounds access issues (oCERT-2014-010)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sox
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

7.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129699/SoX-14.4.1-Heap-Buffer-Overflow.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.