🛡️ CVE-2022-31650 — sound-exchange

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-697 NVD

5.5

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In SoX 14.4.2, there is a floating-point exception in lsx_aiffstartwrite in aiff.c in libsox.a.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-31650 is classified as CWE-697: Incorrect Comparison. The product compares two entities in a security-relevant context, but the comparison is incorrect.

Affected software

CVE-2022-31650 is recorded against 1 package.

sound-exchange

Timeline and source

Published on 25 May 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.openwall.com
lists.debian.org
sourceforge.net
www.debian.org
www.openwall.com
lists.debian.org
sourceforge.net
www.debian.org

CVE-2022-31650 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 5.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE CWE-697

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2022-05-25

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
sound-exchange	—	—

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/03/3

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00009.html

Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/360/

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5356

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/03/3

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00009.html

Exploit, Third Party Advisory https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/360/

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5356

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