PT-2025-54245 · Sox+1 · Sox+1

Published 2022-01-01 · Updated 2025-12-31 · CVE-2022-50798

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SoX version 14.4.2

Description SoX version 14.4.2 contains a division by zero issue when processing WAV files, potentially leading to program crashes. An attacker can provide a crafted WAV file to trigger a floating point exception due to arithmetic errors during sound file processing.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Divide By Zero

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-369

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-50798

Affected Products

Debian

Sox

References · 13

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/51034 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50798 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50798 · Security Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/41001 · Telegram Post
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoX · Note
• https://zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2022-5712.php · Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/sox-denial-of-service-vulnerability-via-wav-file-processing · Note
• http://sox.sourceforge.net · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2006332248862466091 · Twitter Post