Divide By Zero Affecting sox package, versions <14.4.2+git20190427-3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SOX-2805754
  • published 29 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 25 Aug 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable sox to version 14.4.2+git20190427-3.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sox package and not the sox package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

4 medium