Divide By Zero Affecting sox package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-SOX-9897063
  • published29 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Apr 2021

Introduced: 20 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-23210  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-369  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 sox.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sox package and not the sox package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 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 Base Scores

version 3.1