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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-44269: Low: wavpack security update (ALSA-2022-8139)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-44269: Low: wavpack security update (ALSA-2022-8139)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/10/2022
Created
11/15/2022
Added
11/14/2022
Modified
05/02/2024

Description

An out of bounds read was found in Wavpack 5.4.0 in processing *.WAV files. This issue triggered in function WavpackPackSamples of file src/pack_utils.c, tainted variable cnt is too large, that makes pointer sptr read beyond heap bound.

Solution(s)

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

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