Out-of-bounds Write Affecting sox package, versions <14.4.1-5+deb9u2
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- published16 Feb 2019
- disclosed15 Feb 2019
Introduced: 15 Feb 2019
CVE-2019-8356 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 sox to version 14.4.1-5+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sox package and not the sox package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. One of the arguments to bitrv2 in fft4g.c is not guarded, such that it can lead to write access outside of the statically declared array, aka a stack-based buffer overflow.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-8356
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8356
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00040.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/bugs/321
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4079-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4079-2/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-8356