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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975664
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33844
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/349/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-33844
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0046
EPSS Percentile
36.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-369
Status
published
Products (1)
sound_exchange_project/sound_exchange
14.4.2-7
Published
Aug 25, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026