Stack-based buffer over-read in WavPack - CVE-2018-6767

 

Stack-based buffer over-read in WavPack - CVE-2018-6767

Published: February 14, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10573
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6767
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to a stack-based buffer over-read in the ParseRiffHeaderConfig function of cli/riff.c file. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted RF64 file cause the application to crash.

Affected software

WavPack
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Fedora
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
wavpack (Alpine package)
mingw-wavpack
wavpack

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6767

Install update from vendor's website.

wavpack (Alpine package) - update to 5.1.0-r1
mingw-wavpack - addressed in versions 5.1.0-4.el7, 5.1.0-4.fc26, 5.1.0-4.fc27
wavpack - addressed in versions 5.1.0-7.fc26, 5.1.0-7.fc27

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