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A sox security update has been released for Fedora 30.



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-cb7b7181a0
2020-02-08 01:36:33.446944
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Name : sox
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 14.4.2.0
Release : 28.fc30
URL :   http://sox.sourceforge.net/
Summary : A general purpose sound file conversion tool
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Fixes **CVE-2017-18189**.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Jiri Kucera - 14.4.2.0-28
- fix CVE-2017-18189
resolves #1545867
* Wed Jan 29 2020 Jiri Kucera - 14.4.2.0-27
- remove %check (we use Fedora CI instead in a future)
* Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 14.4.2.0-26
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1545867 - CVE-2017-18189 sox: Null pointer dereference in startread function in xa.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545867
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-cb7b7181a0' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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