Upstream information

CVE-2021-33844 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 5.5 3.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction Required Required
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1207043 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4
  • libsox3 >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1
  • sox >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1
  • sox-devel >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2023-328
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5
  • libsox3 >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1
  • sox >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1
  • sox-devel >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2023-329
openSUSE Leap 15.4
  • libsox3 >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1
  • sox >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1
  • sox-devel >= 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2023-328
openSUSE Leap 15.5
  • libsox3 >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1
  • sox >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1
  • sox-devel >= 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2023-329
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libsox3 >= 14.4.2-8.1
  • sox >= 14.4.2-8.1
  • sox-devel >= 14.4.2-8.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-13359

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jun 24 10:27:57 2021
CVE page last modified: Sat Nov 1 22:34:29 2025