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Amazon Linux 2 : sox, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3032 (ALAS-2025-3032)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 270546
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Synopsis
The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.Description
The version of sox installed on the remote host is prior to 14.4.1-7. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-3032 advisory.A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) issue was discovered in SoX in functon startread() of wav.c file. An attacker with a crafted wav file, could cause an application to crash. (CVE-2021-33844)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Run 'yum update sox' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-3032' to update your system.See Also
https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-3032.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 270546
File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-3032.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 10/15/2025
Updated: 10/30/2025
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.9
Temporal Score: 3.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33844
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox-devel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-33844