Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1705-1] sox security update)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SoX (Sound eXchange), a sound processing program: CVE-2017-11332 The startread function (wav.c) is affected by a divide-by-zero vulnerability when processing WAV file with zero channel count. This flaw might be leveraged by remote attackers using a crafted WAV file to perform denial of service (application crash). CVE-2017-11358 The read_samples function (hcom.c) is affected by an invalid memory read vulnerability when processing HCOM files with invalid dictionaries. This flaw might be leveraged by remote attackers using a crafted HCOM file to perform denial of service (application crash). CVE-2017-11359 The wavwritehdr function (wav.c) is affected by a divide-by-zero vulnerability when processing WAV files with invalid channel count over 16 bits. This flaw might be leveraged by remote attackers using a crafted WAV file to perform denial of service (application crash). CVE-2017-15371 The sox_append_comment() function (formats.c) is vulnerable to a reachable assertion when processing FLAC files with metadata declaring more comments than provided. This flaw might be leveraged by remote attackers using crafted FLAC data to perform denial of service (application crash).

sox on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 14.4.1-5+deb8u3. We recommend that you upgrade your sox packages.