Medium, CVSS 6.9PyPIAmendedPublished
PocketSphinx: Buffer overflows in language and acoustic model loading code
CVE-2026-54559 · GHSA-56r5-2p2f-7cxp
- Affected
- PyPI pocketsphinx < 5.1.1
- Fixed in
- 5.1.1· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Impact The trie language model code introduced in PocketSphinx 5prealpha failed to check various boundary conditions when reading the headers of ARPA, DMP, and binary format language model files. In the case of invalid, corrupted or malicious input files, this could lead to stack and heap buffer overflows. In addition, the acoustic model loading code (which is over 30 years old...) contains numerous instances of sscanf with an unbounded string field which could also lead to stack overflows in the case of corrupt or malicious inputs. Because PocketSphinx will search the directory given by the POCKETSPHINXPATH environment variable for acoustic and language model files, if this directory is writable by untrusted users, an attacker could corrupt an existing file or write a malicious one to this directory in order to trigger the vulnerability. Patches The problem has been corrected in PocketSphinx 5.1.1. There is no patch currently available for users of Pocketsphinx 5prealpha, who are…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 5.1.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.