Vulnerability CVE-2018-19840
Published: 2018-12-04

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.

Type:

CWE-835

 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Wavpack -> Wavpack 
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00029.html
https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/commit/070ef6f138956d9ea9612e69586152339dbefe51
https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/53
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3BLSOEVEKF4VNNVNZ2AN46BJUT4TGVWT/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZGXJUHCGQI6XKLCBUZHXPYIIWMFWA22/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WVVKOBJR5APOB3KWUWJ4UWQHUBZQL6C6/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3839-1/
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