vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-33844): SoX vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 25, 2022
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

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

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libsox2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-soxubuntu-upgrade-libsox3ubuntu-upgrade-sox
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