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Low RLSA-2022:7979 1 CVE

Low: speex security update

Published Nov 15, 2022 · Updated Oct 9, 2025

Summary

Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates.

Security Fix(es):

* speex: divide by zero in read_samples() via crafted WAV file (CVE-2020-23903)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 speex 0:1.2.0-11.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —

    A Divide by Zero vulnerability in the function static int read_samples of Speex v1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024250