CVE-2019-8354: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. lsx_make_lpf in effect_i_dsp.c has an integer overflow on the result of multiplication fed into malloc. When the buffer is allocated, it is smaller than expected, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Sound Exchange Project Sound Exchange: version 14.4.2 only

Published 2019-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.