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<glsa id="200407-23">
  <title>SoX: Multiple buffer overflows</title>
  <synopsis>
    SoX contains two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the WAV header parser
    code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">SoX</product>
  <announced>2004-07-30</announced>
  <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
  <bug>58733</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-sound/sox" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">12.17.4-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">12.17.4-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of
    computer audio files in to other formats.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Ulf Harnhammar discovered two buffer overflows in the sox and play
    commands when handling WAV files with specially crafted header fields.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By enticing a user to play or convert a specially crafted WAV file an
    attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user
    running SoX.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to
    upgrade to the latest available version of SoX.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All SoX users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv "&gt;=media-sound/sox-12.17.4-r2"
    # emerge "&gt;=media-sound/sox-12.17.4-r2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/1141.html">Full Disclosure Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0557">CVE-2004-0557</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>
