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 will make all the necessary changes.
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