SoX - Sound eXchange 14.4.2 and earlier is affected by: Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: Denial of Service. The component is: read_samples function at xa.c:219. The attack vector is: Victim must open specially crafted .xa file. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2017-18189.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - sox: two heap out-of-bounds access issues (oCERT-2014-010) (CVE-2014-8145)

  - sox: null pointer dereference in function lsx_make_lpf in effect_i_dsp.c (CVE-2019-8357)

  - The startread function in wav.c in Sound eXchange (SoX) 14.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted wav file. (CVE-2017-11332)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199662	RHEL 7 : sox (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
195720	RHEL 6 : sox (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195675	RHEL 5 : sox (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2019-1010004

medium

Tenable Plugins

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