CVE-2022-50798 (GCVE-0-2022-50798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 22:41 – Updated: 2025-12-30 22:41
VLAI?
Title
SoX 14.4.2 Denial of Service Vulnerability via WAV File Processing
Summary
SoX 14.4.2 contains a division by zero vulnerability when handling WAV files that can cause program crashes. Attackers can trigger a floating point exception by providing a specially crafted WAV file that causes arithmetic errors during sound file processing.
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Chris Bagwell SoX Affected: 14.4.2
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Credits
LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab
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