Out-of-bounds Write Affecting sox package, versions <14.4.2+git20190427-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SOX-337468
  • published 16 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 15 Feb 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable sox to version 14.4.2+git20190427-1 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.

An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. In xmalloc.h, there is an integer overflow on the result of multiplication fed into the lsx_valloc macro that wraps malloc. When the buffer is allocated, it is smaller than expected, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in channels_start in remix.c.