Memory corruption in WavPack - CVE-2018-7253
Published: March 2, 2018 / Updated: March 21, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10823
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7253
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote unautheticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the cli/dsdiff.c source codein the ParseDsdiffHeaderConfig function due to boundary error. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted DSDIFF file, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists in the cli/dsdiff.c source codein the ParseDsdiffHeaderConfig function due to boundary error. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted DSDIFF file, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Affected software
WavPack
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Fedora
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
wavpack (Alpine package)
mingw-wavpack
wavpack
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Fedora
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
wavpack (Alpine package)
mingw-wavpack
wavpack
How to mitigate CVE-2018-7253
Update to version 5.1.0-2.
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
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
External References
Related Security Bulletins
- Debian update for wavpack
- Arch Linux update for wavpack
- Arch Linux update for lib32-wavpack
- Ubuntu update for WavPack
- Slackware Linux update for wavpack
- Memory corruption in wavpack (Alpine package)
- Fedora 27 update for wavpack
- Fedora 26 update for wavpack
- Fedora 26 update for mingw-wavpack
- Fedora 27 update for mingw-wavpack
- Fedora EPEL 7 update for mingw-wavpack