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New sox packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 565-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
October 13th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : sox
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-0557
Debian Bug : 262083

Ulf Harnhammar has reported two vulnerabilities in SoX, a universal sound sample translator, which may be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system with a specially crafted .wav file.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 12.17.3-4woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 12.17.4-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your sox package.



Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 591 cb5fec82f02cd32b80faebe304ce520b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 7416 c3cc69a3e01c562f19ae87e1db396698
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 402599 23b6a2f9f225eebc30d85ec9e1af54a4

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 336076 678c3efb9398209c0eaa81837c399476
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 193074 f79000b7567eb00ed31500e0aae44d72

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 260592 43e3adc88d20838848bf259eef1e5663
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 151582 eec28d453add90289b07c85114077131

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 241232 0cbd8714254f8e3383addbf3d1f21cfa
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 136726 369d2b13579121a95fbe30a32aee7b05

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 400464 4e7c9d20cd13130e042724943f77671a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 218374 332c9f352a2e338a23fb10d29844b3f0

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 305896 d4b2682a2394366c1c483442c81841d9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 180884 bc5af7ce55b676059bba44321cfaf0e1

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 220024 46f468987f21d4a6c68f52e7c84c86ff
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 127202 be81e1633da5ee7820446c07e2ee614e

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 291090 6a7727dc32a9b26e13a887e88ff09394
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 167998 af42bc50dc7bc7bc5fbdbc00e03fd630

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 290876 0e0a0cbf78f40bd6dd97593bdf4b1871
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 168254 79ff397a577a8e1c5eb51d88f51d00d3

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 269022 fc13fb341a3dcf15492d07be291dcb38
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 166164 46508fb11779d0fa9467b1c70687c054

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 254254 c549fb32a18e22aba4361f22c645a66c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 140188 4f632838362fdbdb5762e311c37edfc5

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox_12.17.3-4woody2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 261678 dfe2049b353134fd6f817fe5dba6670d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sox/sox-dev_12.17.3-4woody2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 153940 6eb8611b2ef1e7f70d5992af4f3ab687


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update.