Use After Free Affecting sox package, versions <14.4.2-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SOX-292328
  • published 19 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 19 Oct 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable sox to version 14.4.2-2 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

In lsx_aiffstartread in aiff.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2, there is a Use-After-Free vulnerability triggered by supplying a malformed AIFF file.