Fedora alert FEDORA-2004-244 (sox)

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Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
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fedora-announce-list@redhat.com
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[SECURITY] Fedora Core 2 Update: sox-12.17.4-4.fc2
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Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:38:32 -0400

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-244
2004-07-28
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Product     : Fedora Core 2
Name        : sox
Version     : 12.17.4                      
Release     : 4.fc2                  
Summary     : A general purpose sound file conversion tool.
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.

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Update Information:

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.

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* Fri Jul 23 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> 12.17.4-4.fc2

- add patch for buffer overflow in wav code (CAN-2004-0557, #128158)

* Fri Jul 09 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> 12.17.4-4

- add patch for 64-bit problem (#127502)

* Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

- rebuilt


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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

1020f447f7a723dab88d8bc17b364a7b  SRPMS/sox-12.17.4-4.fc2.src.rpm
7ce0bf74c84febdd8013d61a06f3d46c  x86_64/sox-12.17.4-4.fc2.x86_64.rpm
cd8c74016bf280afceb513a20184af93  x86_64/sox-devel-12.17.4-4.fc2.x86_64.rpm
d891be1475f207ce0103fdac5ef832f1  x86_64/debug/sox-debuginfo-12.17.4-4.fc2.x86_64.rpm
a4e7728468e13aa426b7433d0bafb210  i386/sox-12.17.4-4.fc2.i386.rpm
f3eb4728f9a1f20662a54a724ac99486  i386/sox-devel-12.17.4-4.fc2.i386.rpm
765a3b6f295f98448c09ffac0162a01a  i386/debug/sox-debuginfo-12.17.4-4.fc2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  
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