USN-3568-1: WavPack vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3568-1

12th February, 2018

wavpack vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

WavPack could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted
file.

Software description

• wavpack
  - audio codec (lossy and lossless) - encoder and decoder
  
  

Details

Hanno Böck discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain
WV files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu
16.04 LTS. ()

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 17.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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CVE-2018-6767