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medium 6.2

CVE-2023-32627 json

Floating point exception in src/voc.c

published 2023-07-10 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-36870

cvss
6.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A floating point exception vulnerability was found in sox, in the read_samples function at sox/src/voc.c:334:18. This flaw can lead to a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • sox Debian 13 14.4.2+git20190427-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-32627

  • sox Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • sox Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2ubuntu0.22.04.1
  • sox Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm4
  • sox Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 14.4.1-5+deb8u4ubuntu0.1+esm3
  • sox Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 14.4.2-3ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-32627

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  • sox openSUSE Tumbleweed 14.4.2-8.1
  • sox Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 14.4.2-bp155.3.3.1
  • sox Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 14.4.2-bp154.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13359-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0329-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0328-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-32627 updated cvss 6.2

sox: floating point exception in src/voc.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sox
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) sox
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a sox
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
  • Fedora Fedora

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1077 Floating Point Comparison with Incorrect Operator
  • CWE-697 Incorrect Comparison

References

Sources

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