The read_new_config_info function in open_utils.c in Wavpack before 5.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted WV file.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - The read_code function in read_words.c in Wavpack before 5.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
    of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted WV file. (CVE-2016-10169)

  - The WriteCaffHeader function in cli/caff.c in Wavpack before 5.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a
    denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted WV file. (CVE-2016-10170)

  - The unreorder_channels function in cli/wvunpack.c in Wavpack before 5.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause
    a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted WV file. (CVE-2016-10171)

  - The read_new_config_info function in open_utils.c in Wavpack before 5.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause
    a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted WV file. (CVE-2016-10172)

This update for wavpack fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-10169 CVE-2016-10170 CVE-2016-10171     CVE-2016-10172: Make sure upper and lower boundaries     make sense, to avoid out of bounds memory reads that     could lead to crashes or disclosing memory.
    (bsc#1021483)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This update for wavpack fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-10169 CVE-2016-10170 CVE-2016-10171     CVE-2016-10172: Make sure upper and lower boundaries     make sense, to avoid out of bounds memory reads that     could lead to crashes or disclosing memory.
    (bsc#1021483)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

David Bryant reports :

global buffer overread in read_code / read_words.c

heap out of bounds read in WriteCaffHeader / caff.c

heap out of bounds read in unreorder_channels / wvunpack.c

heap oob read in read_new_config_info / open_utils.c

Update wavpack to 5.1.0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
426259	Alpine: multiple wavpack packages: security update to 5.1.0-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
426259	Alpine: multiple wavpack packages: security update to 5.1.0-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400897	Alpine: multiple wavpack packages: security update to 4.80.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400897	Alpine: multiple wavpack packages: security update to 4.80.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
107182	openSUSE Security Update : wavpack (openSUSE-2018-227)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
107143	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wavpack (SUSE-SU-2018:0608-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
107142	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wavpack (SUSE-SU-2018:0607-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
97251	FreeBSD : wavpack -- multiple invalid memory reads (f1075415-f5e9-11e6-a4e2-5404a68ad561)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
96989	Fedora 24 : wavpack (2017-9d7f592a03)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
96967	Fedora 25 : wavpack (2017-ab4f51572f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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