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    CVE-2023-49994

    Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a Floating Point Exception via the function PeaksToHarmspect at wavegen.c.

    Published:Dec 12, 2023
    Last Modified:Nov 4, 2025
    EPS:Dec 12, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.00044
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Espeak-ng
    Product
    Espeak-ng

    Exploits

    https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1823https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1823

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-15 Command Delimiters
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-41 Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-44 Overflow Binary Resource File
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-6 Argument Injection
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities
    CAPEC-92 Forced Integer Overflow

    References

    https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1823
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2PZEBWPNKPAYJMIM3AS2RP3FL6FX3HS4/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z5WW6RKHRWLEMCKCQ6UZCXWC5J7UWMUQ/
    https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1823
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00050.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2PZEBWPNKPAYJMIM3AS2RP3FL6FX3HS4/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z5WW6RKHRWLEMCKCQ6UZCXWC5J7UWMUQ/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2PZEBWPNKPAYJMIM3AS2RP3FL6FX3HS4/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z5WW6RKHRWLEMCKCQ6UZCXWC5J7UWMUQ/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High