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