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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-2283-01 Low: SoX Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat announces a minor security patch for sox addressing a low-risk NULL pointer dereference issue within sound file conversion functionalities.
An update for sox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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(es):
* sox: NULL pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c (CVE-2017-18189)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat patch sox low severity sound conversion

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18189 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm sox-devel-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-devel-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm sox-devel-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-devel-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.ppc.rpm sox-14.4.1-7.el7.ppc64.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.ppc.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.s390.rpm sox-14.4.1-7.el7.s390x.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.s390.rpm sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: sox-14.4.1-7.el7.i686.rpm sox-14.4.1-7.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2283-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2283
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for sox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat patch sox low severity sound conversion

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1545866 - CVE-2017-18189 sox: NULL pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c

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