DSA-565-1 sox -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-565-1 sox -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

13 Oct 2004

Affected Packages:

sox

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 262083.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0557.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar has reported two vulnerabilities in SoX, a universal sound sample translator, which may be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system with a specially crafted .wav file.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 12.17.3-4woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 12.17.4-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your sox package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.