Fedora 26 Security Advisory: Sox Software Critical Fixes for Threats

SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter. SoX can convert

between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple

sound manipulation functions, including sound effects.

*SOX_PLUGINS* environment variable, added in *sox-14.4.2.0-16* to allow

overriding standard *sox* path to plugins for the test purposes, is no longer

exposed to user. ---- Security fix for **CVE-2017-15372**, **CVE-2017-15642**.

[ 1 ] Bug #1510923 - CVE-2017-15642 sox: Use-after-free in lsx_aiffstartread

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510923

[ 2 ] Bug #1510919 - CVE-2017-15372 sox: Stack-based buffer overflow in the lsx_ms_adpcm_block_expand_i function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510919

su -c 'dnf upgrade sox' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org