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Fedora 27: 2018-b528f28c59 Critical SoX Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 audio update mitigates severe memory issues and resolves risks in sound manipulation tools.
Security fix for **CVE-2017-15370** and **CVE-2017-15371**

Summary

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.

Security fix for **CVE-2017-15370** and **CVE-2017-15371**

[ 1 ] Bug #1510918 - CVE-2017-15371 sox: Reachable assertion abort in the function sox_append_comment()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510918

[ 2 ] Bug #1510917 - CVE-2017-15370 sox: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ImaExpandS function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510917

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/

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 14.4.2.0
Release: 14.fc27
Summary: A general purpose sound file conversion tool

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