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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-cb7b7181a0 Critical: sox Null Pointer Deference

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A pivotal Fedora upgrade tackling weaknesses in audio file transformation utilities and guidelines for implementing the remedy.
Fixes **CVE-2017-18189**.

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.

Fixes **CVE-2017-18189**.

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Jiri Kucera - 14.4.2.0-28

- fix CVE-2017-18189

resolves #1545867

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Jiri Kucera - 14.4.2.0-27

- remove %check (we use Fedora CI instead in a future)

* Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 14.4.2.0-26

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1545867 - CVE-2017-18189 sox: Null pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545867

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-cb7b7181a0' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 14.4.2.0
Release: 28.fc30
Summary: A general purpose sound file conversion tool

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