5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-33844

Published: 25/08/2022 Updated: 12/02/2023
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) issue exists in SoX in functon startread() of wav.c file. An attacker with a crafted wav file, could cause an application to crash.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #1021135 sox: CVE-2021-33844 Package: src:sox; Maintainer for src:sox is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 18:03:06 UTC Severity: normal Tags: security, upstream Found in version sox/14 ...
Multiple security issues were discovered in Sox, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed audio file is processed For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 1442+git20190427-2+deb11u1 We recommen ...
One of the security fixes released as DSA 5356 introduced a regression in the processing of specific WAV files Updated sox packages are available to correct this issue For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 1442+git20190427-2+deb11u2 We recommend that you upgrade your sox packages For the detailed se ...
A vulnerability was found in SoX where a divide by zero bug exists in wavc:967, functon startread With a crafted wav file, the application crashes ...