Fedora Core 1 : sox-12.17.4-4.fc1 (2004-235)

Updated sox packages that fix buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code are now available. 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. Note...

Fedora Core 2 : sox-12.17.4-4.fc2 (2004-244)

Updated sox packages that fix buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code are now available. 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. Note...

SoX buffer overflows when handling .WAV files

Ulf Härnhammar discovered a pair of buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code of SoX. If an attacker can cause her victim to process a specially-crafted WAV file with SoX e.g. through social engineering or through some other program that relies on SoX, arbitrary code can be executed with the...