1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3568-1

USN-3568-1: WavPack vulnerabilities

Publication date

12 February 2018

Overview

WavPack could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

  • wavpack - audio codec (lossy and lossless) - encoder and decoder

Details

Hanno Böck discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain
WV files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu
16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10169)

Joonun Jang discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain
RF64 files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-6767)

Hanno Böck discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain
WV files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu
16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10169)

Joonun Jang discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain
RF64 files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-6767)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
17.10 artful libwavpack1 –  5.1.0-2ubuntu0.1
wavpack –  5.1.0-2ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial libwavpack1 –  4.75.2-2ubuntu0.1
wavpack –  4.75.2-2ubuntu0.1
14.04 trusty libwavpack1 –  4.70.0-1ubuntu0.1
wavpack –  4.70.0-1ubuntu0.1

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