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Gentoo: GLSA-200407-23 Normal: SoX Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey July 30, 2004
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The Gentoo GLSA 200407-23 report highlights critical vulnerabilities in SoX, focusing on buffer overflows in WAV header management, posing potential code execution threats
SoX contains two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the WAV header parser code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200407-23
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: SoX: Multiple buffer overflows
      Date: July 30, 2004
      Bugs: #58733
        ID: 200407-23


Synopsis
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SoX contains two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the WAV header
parser code.

Background
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SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of
computer audio files in to other formats.

Affected packages
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     Package          /    Vulnerable    /                  Unaffected
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  1  media-sound/sox      <= 12.17.4-r1                  >= 12.17.4-r2

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Ulf Harnhammar discovered two buffer overflows in the sox and play
commands when handling WAV files with speciall...
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