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USN-5904-2: SoX regression

Publication date

20 March 2023

Overview

USN-5904-1 caused a minor regression in SoX.

Releases

Packages

  • sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing

Details

USN-5904-1 fixed vulnerabilities in SoX. It was discovered that the fix for
CVE-2021-33844 was incomplete. This update fixes the problem.

Original advisory details:

Helmut Grohne discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM,
and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-13590)

Helmut Grohne discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2021-23159, CVE-2021-23172,...

USN-5904-1 fixed vulnerabilities in SoX. It was discovered that the fix for
CVE-2021-33844 was incomplete. This update fixes the problem.

Original advisory details:

Helmut Grohne discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM,
and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-13590)

Helmut Grohne discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2021-23159, CVE-2021-23172, CVE-2021-23210,
CVE-2021-33844, CVE-2021-3643, CVE-2021-40426, CVE-2022-31650, and
CVE-2022-31651)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic sox –  14.4.2+git20190427-3ubuntu0.2
libsox3 –  14.4.2+git20190427-3ubuntu0.2
22.04 jammy sox –  14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2build0.22.04.1
libsox3 –  14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2build0.22.04.1
20.04 focal sox –  14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2build0.20.04.1
libsox3 –  14.4.2+git20190427-2+deb11u2build0.20.04.1
18.04 bionic sox –  14.4.2-3ubuntu0.18.04.3
libsox3 –  14.4.2-3ubuntu0.18.04.3
16.04 xenial sox –  14.4.1-5+deb8u4ubuntu0.1+esm2  
libsox2 –  14.4.1-5+deb8u4ubuntu0.1+esm2  
14.04 trusty sox –  14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm3  
libsox2 –  14.4.1-3ubuntu1.1+esm3  

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