CVE-2018-19840 — Infinite Loop in Wavpack

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop11 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 42.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
WavpackDebian WavpackCanonical Ubuntu Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 4
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The function WavpackPackInit in pack_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack through 5.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (resource exhaustion caused by an infinite loop) via a crafted wav audio file because WavpackSetConfiguration64 mishandles a sample rate of zero.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/wavpack< wavpack 5.1.0-5 (bookworm)
▶Debianwavpack/wavpack< 5.1.0-5+3
▶Ubuntuwavpack/wavpack< 4.70.0-1ubuntu0.2+2
▶NVDwavpack/wavpack5.1.0
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0

Also affects: Fedora 28, 29, 30, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-5xqp-7g33-7hx3: The function WavpackPackInit in pack_utils↗2022-05-13
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OSV
wavpack vulnerabilities↗2018-12-06
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OSV
CVE-2018-19840: The function WavpackPackInit in pack_utils↗2018-12-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
WavPack vulnerabilities↗2018-12-06
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Red Hat
wawpack: Infinite loop in WavpackPackInit function lead to DoS↗2018-11-26
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Debian
CVE-2018-19840: wavpack - The function WavpackPackInit in pack_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack through ...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19840 wawpack: Infinite loop in WavpackPackInit function lead to DoS↗2018-12-21
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19840 CVE-2018-19841 wavpack: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2018-12-21
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19840 CVE-2018-19841 mingw-wavpack: various flaws [epel-7]↗2018-12-21
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19840 CVE-2018-19841 mingw-wavpack: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2018-12-21
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