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.

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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3315-1 sox security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5356-1 sox security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-20518 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5904-1 SoX vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5904-2 SoX regression
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Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Sound Exchange Project
Sound Exchange Project sound Exchange
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:sox_project:sox:14.4.2-7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:sound_exchange_project:sound_exchange:14.4.2-7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Sox Project
Sox Project sox
Sound Exchange Project
Sound Exchange Project sound Exchange

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T23:58:23.170Z

Reserved: 2021-06-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-33844

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-08-25T20:15:09.087

Modified: 2025-06-27T18:51:27.923

Link: CVE-2021-33844

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-04-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-33844 - Bugzilla

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