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[DSA565] DSA-565-1 sox

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-565-1 sox

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Ulf Härnhammar 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.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-565
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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