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Ubuntu: USN-3839-1 (CVE-2018-19841): WavPack vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3839-1 (CVE-2018-19841): WavPack vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/04/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/13/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The function WavpackVerifySingleBlock in open_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack through 5.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted WavPack Lossless Audio file, as demonstrated by wvunpack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwavpack1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-wavpack

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