File CVE-2017-18189.patch of Package sox

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File CVE-2017-18189.patch of Package sox

Description: A corrupt header specifying zero channels would send read_channels()
into an infinite loop.  Prevent this by sanity checking the channel
count in open_read().  Also add an upper bound to prevent overflow
in multiplication.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881121
Author: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz>
Forwarded: not-needed

---
 src/xa.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Index: sox/src/xa.c
===================================================================
--- sox.orig/src/xa.c
+++ sox/src/xa.c
@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ static int startread(sox_format_t * ft)
         lsx_report("User options overriding rate read in .xa header");
     }
 
+    if (ft->signal.channels == 0 || ft->signal.channels > UINT16_MAX) {
+        lsx_fail_errno(ft, SOX_EFMT, "invalid channel count %d",
+                       ft->signal.channels);
+        return SOX_EOF;
+    }
+
     /* Check for supported formats */
     if (ft->encoding.bits_per_sample != 16) {
         lsx_fail_errno(ft, SOX_EFMT, "%d-bit sample resolution not supported.",

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