Description
PocketSphinx is a small speech recognizer. Prior to 5.1.1, the trie language-model loaders in src/lm/ngram_model_trie.c do not adequately validate boundary conditions in ARPA, DMP, and binary format headers, and the acoustic-model loaders in src/mdef.c and src/util/bio.c use sscanf with unbounded string fields. Loading an invalid, corrupted, or malicious language or acoustic model can therefore cause stack or heap buffer overflows and memory corruption. An attacker who can write to a directory selected by POCKETSPHINX_PATH can replace or add a model file that PocketSphinx later loads; users of PocketSphinx 5prealpha have no backported patch and must migrate to the fixed release. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.1.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| cmusphinx | pocketsphinx | < 5.1.1 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | pocketsphinx | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | pocketsphinx | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | pocketsphinx | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | pocketsphinx | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | pocketsphinx | No fix yet | — |
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | pocketsphinx | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | pocketsphinx | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | pocketsphinx | < 5.1.1 | 5.1.1 | GHSA-56r5-2p2f-7cxp |