CVE-2021-23210

low-risk
Published 2022-08-25

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.21% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.5/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Sound Exchange Project

References (8)

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23210
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975670
Third Party Advisory https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23210
Exploit https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/351/
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23210
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975670
Third Party Advisory https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23210
Exploit https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/351/
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low-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal