CVE-2021-23210

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23210

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23210.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		affected
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`14.4.2+git20190427-3.2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`14.4.2+git20190427-3.2`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23210.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23210

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.