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CVE-2021-33844 (GCVE-0-2021-33844)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-25 19:34 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:58
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a SoX (Sound eXchange) Affected: Not Known
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