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Redhat: Errata Alert: Updated sox packages fix buffer overflows
Red Hat Network has determined that the following advisory is applicable to
one or more of the systems you have registered:
Complete information about this errata can be found at the following location:
https://rhn.redhat.com/network/errata/errata_details.pxt?eid=2221
Security Advisory - RHSA-2004:409-05
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Summary:
Updated sox packages fix buffer overflows
Updated sox packages that fix buffer overflows in the WAV file handling
code are now available.
Description:
SoX (Sound eXchange) is a sound file format converter. SoX can convert
between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound
manipulation functions, including sound effects.
Buffer overflows existed in the parsing of WAV file header fields. It was
possible that a malicious WAV file could have caused arbitrary code to be
executed when the file was played or converted. The Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0557
to these issues.
All users of sox should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve
these issues as well as fix a number of minor bugs.
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Taking Action
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You may address the issues outlined in this advisory in two ways:
- select your server name by clicking on its name from the list
available at the following location, and then schedule an
errata update for it:
https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systemlist/system_list.pxt
- run the Update Agent on each affected server.
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Affected Systems List
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This Errata Advisory may apply to the systems listed below. If you know that
this errata does not apply to a system listed, it might be possible that the
package profile for that server is out of date. In that case you should run
'up2date -p' as root on the system in question to refresh your software profile.
There are 24 affected systems registered in 'Your RHN' (only systems for
which you have explicitly enabled Errata Alerts are shown).
Release Arch Profile Name
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3AS i686 durian.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 br.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 hydra.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 p02.es.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 mpc64.nacs.uci.edu
3AS i686 sedna.nac.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 narg.nac.uci.edu
3WS x86_64 bgcluster02
3AS i686 vesta.nac.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 pxe.es.uci.edu
3WS i686 compute6.bic.uci.edu
3AS i686 p09.es.uci.edu
3WS i686 node-xeon-10
3WS athlon node-opteron-3
3WS athlon node-opteron-4
3WS athlon node-opteron-7
3AS athlon rama.nac.uci.edu
3AS athlon a17.es.uci.edu
3AS athlon a13.es.uci.edu
3AS athlon a08.es.uci.edu
3AS i686 node-xeon-2
3AS i686 esmfgw.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 loki.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 esmfgw.nac.uci.edu
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