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Ubuntu: USN-4682-1 (CVE-2020-35738): WavPack vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 28, 2020
Added
Jan 7, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

WavPack 5.3.0 has an out-of-bounds write in WavpackPackSamples in pack_utils.c because of an integer overflow in a malloc argument. NOTE: some third-parties claim that there are later "unofficial" releases through 5.3.2, which are also affected.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-wavpack
Title
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