1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3637-1

USN-3637-1: WavPack vulnerabilities

Publication date

30 April 2018

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in WavPackXXX-APP-XXX.

Releases

Packages

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

Details

Thuan Pham, Marcel Böhme, Andrew Santosa and Alexandru Razvan Caciulescu
discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain .wav files. An
attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code or cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2018-10536, CVE-2018-10537)

Thuan Pham, Marcel Böhme, Andrew Santosa and Alexandru Razvan Caciulescu
discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain .wav files. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2018-10538, CVE-2018-10539, CVE-2018-10540)

Thuan Pham, Marcel Böhme, Andrew Santosa and Alexandru Razvan Caciulescu
discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain .wav files. An
attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code or cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2018-10536, CVE-2018-10537)

Thuan Pham, Marcel Böhme, Andrew Santosa and Alexandru Razvan Caciulescu
discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain .wav files. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2018-10538, CVE-2018-10539, CVE-2018-10540)

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
18.04 bionic wavpack –  5.1.0-2ubuntu1.1
17.10 artful wavpack –  5.1.0-2ubuntu0.3

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