Package : sox Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0557 Debian Bug : 262083
Ulf Harnhammar has reported two vulnerabilities in SoX, a universal sound sample translator, which may be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system with a specially crafted .wav file.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 12.17.3-4woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 12.17.4-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your sox package.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------