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Debian: DSA-3112-1 Urgent: SoX Heap Overflow Exploit Risk

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2014
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The Security Notice DSA-3112-2 tackles vulnerabilities in GnuTLS; an essential update for Ubuntu installations that may be subject to threats.
Michele Spagnuolo of the Google Security Team dicovered two heap-based buffer overflows in SoX, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 14.4.0-3+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and the unstable
distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your sox packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: sox
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8145

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