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Ubuntu 23.04 USN-6345-1: SoX Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A potential vulnerability in SoX discovered in Ubuntu may cause system instability due to specially crafted input, advisory USN-6346-1 released.
SoX could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

SoX could be made to crash if it received specially crafted

input.

Software Description:

- sox: Swiss army knife of sound processing

Details:

It was discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a

user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted

input file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial

of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service SoX Ubuntu update instructions

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04:
   libsox3                         14.4.2+git20190427-3.4ubuntu1.1
   sox                             14.4.2+git20190427-3.4ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   libsox3                         14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2ubuntu0.22.04.1
   sox                             14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   libsox3                         14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2ubuntu0.20.04.1
   sox                             14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
   libsox3                         14.4.2-3ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm1
   sox                             14.4.2-3ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
   libsox2                         14.4.1-5+deb8u4ubuntu0.1+esm3
   sox                             14.4.1-5+deb8u4ubuntu0.1+esm3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
   libsox2                         14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm4
   sox                             14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6345-1

CVE-2023-32627

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6345-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service SoX Ubuntu update instructions

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sox/14.4.2+git20190427-3.4ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sox/14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2ubuntu0.22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sox/14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2ubuntu0.20.04.1

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