Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting sox package, versions <14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-SOX-466453
  • published24 Jul 2019
  • disclosed14 Jul 2019

Introduced: 14 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-13590  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 sox to version 14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm2 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in libsox.a in SoX 14.4.2. In sox-fmt.h (startread function), there is an integer overflow on the result of integer addition (wraparound to 0) fed into the lsx_calloc macro that wraps malloc. When a NULL pointer is returned, it is used without a prior check that it is a valid pointer, leading to a NULL pointer dereference on lsx_readbuf in formats_i.c.

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