USN-3839-1: WavPack vulnerabilities wavpack vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in WavPack. Software Description wavpack – audio codec (lossy and lossless) – encoder and decoder Details It was discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain WAV files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-19840, CVE-2018-19841) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 libwavpack1 – 5.1.0-4ubuntu0.1 wavpack – 5.1.0-4ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libwavpack1 – 5.1.0-2ubuntu1.2 wavpack – 5.1.0-2ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libwavpack1 – 4.75.2-2ubuntu0.2 wavpack – 4.75.2-2ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS libwavpack1 – 4.70.0-1ubuntu0.2 wavpack – 4.70.0-1ubuntu0.2 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update [ more… ]