Executive Summary

Summary
Title SoX: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-201612-30 First vendor Publication 2016-12-11
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-12-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple heap overflows in SoX may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats.

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow can be triggered when processing a malicious NIST Sphere or WAV audio file.

Impact

A remote attacker could coerce the victim to run SoX against their malicious file. This may be leveraged by an attacker to gain control of program execution with the privileges of the user.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All SoX users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/sox-14.4.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-8145 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8145

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-30

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201612-30.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28515
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28515
Title: DSA-3112-1 -- sox security update
Description: Michele Spagnuolo of the Google Security Team dicovered two heap-based buffer overflows in SoX, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs. A specially crafted wav file could cause an application using SoX to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3112-1
CVE-2014-8145
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
 Product(s): sox
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-12 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-30.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-24 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_92cda47030cb11e5a4a5002590263bf5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-128.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-1943.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-09 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3112.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-12-13 13:24:13
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-12 09:24:16
  • First insertion