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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-19840: Low: wavpack security update (ALSA-2020-1581)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-19840: Low: wavpack security update (ALSA-2020-1581)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/04/2018
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

The function WavpackPackInit in pack_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack through 5.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (resource exhaustion caused by an infinite loop) via a crafted wav audio file because WavpackSetConfiguration64 mishandles a sample rate of zero.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-wavpack
  • alma-upgrade-wavpack-devel

References

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