Advisories ยป MGASA-2018-0211

Updated sox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 30 Apr 2018
Modification date: 30 Apr 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-11332 , CVE-2017-11358 , CVE-2017-11359 , CVE-2017-15372 , CVE-2017-15642 , CVE-2017-18189

Description

This update for sox fixes the following security issues:

* CVE-2017-11332: Fixed the startread function in wav.c, which allowed
remote attackers to cause a DoS (divide-by-zero) via a crafted wav file.
* CVE-2017-11358: Fixed the read_samples function in hcom.c, which
allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS (invalid memory read) via a
crafted hcom file.
* CVE-2017-11359: Fixed the wavwritehdr function in wav.c, which allowed
remote attackers to cause a DoS (divide-by-zero) when converting a a
crafted snd file to a wav file.
* CVE-2017-15372: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in the
lsx_ms_adpcm_block_expand_i function of adpcm.c, which allowed remote
attackers to cause a DoS during conversion of a crafted audio file.
* CVE-2017-15642: Fixed an Use-After-Free vulnerability in
lsx_aiffstartread in aiff.c, which could be triggered by an attacker by
providing a malformed AIFF file.
* CVE-2017-18189: In the startread function in xa.c in Sound eXchange
(SoX) through 14.4.2, a corrupt header specifying zero channels triggers
an infinite loop with a resultant NULL pointer dereference, which may
allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service.

References

SRPMS

5/core

6/core