CVE-2023-26590 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A floating point exception vulnerability was found in sox, in the lsx_aiffstartwrite function at sox/src/aiff.c:622:58. This flaw can lead to a denial of service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux Fedora
Redhat	Enterprise Linux
Sound Exchange Project	Sound Exchange

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:sound_exchange_project:sound_exchange:14.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:::::::*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-26590
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212279
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26590
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-26590

History

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Sound Exchange Project Sound Exchange Project sound Exchange
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:sox_project:sox:14.4.3:::::::*	cpe:2.3:a:sound_exchange_project:sound_exchange:14.4.3:::::::*
Vendors & Products	Sox Project Sox Project sox	Sound Exchange Project Sound Exchange Project sound Exchange

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-07-10T17:14:14.297Z

Updated: 2024-10-01T15:55:31.776Z

Reserved: 2023-06-06T07:28:27.543Z

Link: CVE-2023-26590

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T11:53:53.799Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-10T18:15:10.707

Modified: 2025-06-27T18:51:27.923

Link: CVE-2023-26590

Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-26590 - Bugzilla

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