CVE-2023-26590

Publication date 10 July 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sox	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u1build0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 14.4.1-5+deb8u4ubuntu0.1+esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm2

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Notes

ebarretto

From Debian: Same fix as for CVE-2022-31650

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H