CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2023-32627 — A floating point exception vulnerability was found in sox, in the read_samples function at sox/src/voc.c:334:18

Medium CVSS 6.2

A floating point exception vulnerability was found in sox, in the read_samples function at sox/src/voc.c:334:18. This flaw can lead to a denial of service.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.2 (3.1)
Published
2023-07-10
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-1077, CWE-697

Affected products

  • sound_exchange_project / sound_exchange / 14.4.3
  • fedoraproject / extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux / 8.0
  • fedoraproject / fedora / 38
  • redhat / enterprise_linux / 6.0
  • redhat / enterprise_linux / 7.0

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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