Input validation error in WavPack - CVE-2019-11498

 

Input validation error in WavPack - CVE-2019-11498

Published: July 17, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19226
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11498
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the WavpackSetConfiguration64() function in the pack_utils.c file within the libwavpack.a. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted DFF file that lacks valid sample-rate data and crash the affected application. 


Affected software

WavPack
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Opensuse
Ubuntu
wavpack (Alpine package)
wavpack (Ubuntu package)
libwavpack1 (Ubuntu package)
mingw-wavpack
wavpack
wavpack (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2019-11498

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

wavpack (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 5.1.0-r4, 5.1.0-r8
wavpack (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.1.0-2ubuntu1.3, 5.1.0-4ubuntu0.2, 5.1.0-5ubuntu0.1
libwavpack1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.1.0-2ubuntu1.3, 5.1.0-4ubuntu0.2, 5.1.0-5ubuntu0.1
mingw-wavpack - addressed in versions 5.1.0-9.el7, 5.1.0-9.fc30, 5.1.0-9.fc31
wavpack - addressed in versions 5.1.0-13.fc28, 5.1.0-13.fc29, 5.1.0-13.fc30
wavpack (Red Hat package) - update to 5.1.0-15.el8

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