CVE-2004-0557: Conectiva Linux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 25.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

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

Published 2004-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.