A null pointer dereference bug was found in wavpack-5.4.0 The results from the ASAN log: AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL ===================================================================84257==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x561b47a970c6 bp 0x7fff13952fb0 sp 0x7fff1394fca0 T0) ==84257==The signal is caused by a WRITE memory access. ==84257==Hint: address points to the zero page. #0 0x561b47a970c5 in main cli/wvunpack.c:834 #1 0x7efc4f5c0082 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x24082) #2 0x561b47a945ed in _start (/usr/local/bin/wvunpack+0xa5ed) AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV cli/wvunpack.c:834 in main ==84257==ABORTING

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-000294 advisory.

    A null pointer dereference bug was found in wavpack-5.4.0 The results from the ASAN log:
    AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL     ===================================================================84257==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on     unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x561b47a970c6 bp 0x7fff13952fb0 sp 0x7fff1394fca0 T0) ==84257==The     signal is caused by a WRITE memory access. ==84257==Hint: address points to the zero page. #0     0x561b47a970c5 in main cli/wvunpack.c:834 #1 0x7efc4f5c0082 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-     gnu/libc.so.6+0x24082) #2 0x561b47a945ed in _start (/usr/local/bin/wvunpack+0xa5ed) AddressSanitizer can     not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV cli/wvunpack.c:834 in main ==84257==ABORTING

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A null pointer dereference bug was found in wavpack-5.4.0 The results from the ASAN log:
    AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL     ===================================================================84257==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on     unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x561b47a970c6 bp 0x7fff13952fb0 sp 0x7fff1394fca0 T0) ==84257==The     signal is caused by a WRITE memory access. ==84257==Hint: address points to the zero page. #0     0x561b47a970c5 in main cli/wvunpack.c:834 #1 0x7efc4f5c0082 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-     gnu/libc.so.6+0x24082) #2 0x561b47a945ed in _start (/usr/local/bin/wvunpack+0xa5ed) AddressSanitizer can     not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV cli/wvunpack.c:834 in main ==84257==ABORTING     (CVE-2022-2476)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of wavpack installed on the remote host is prior to 4.60.1-9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2213 advisory.

    A null pointer dereference bug was found in wavpack-5.4.0 The results from the ASAN log:
    AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL     ===================================================================84257==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on     unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x561b47a970c6 bp 0x7fff13952fb0 sp 0x7fff1394fca0 T0) ==84257==The     signal is caused by a WRITE memory access. ==84257==Hint: address points to the zero page. #0     0x561b47a970c5 in main cli/wvunpack.c:834 #1 0x7efc4f5c0082 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-     gnu/libc.so.6+0x24082) #2 0x561b47a945ed in _start (/usr/local/bin/wvunpack+0xa5ed) AddressSanitizer can     not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV cli/wvunpack.c:834 in main ==84257==ABORTING     (CVE-2022-2476)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 35 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-c9c086b06f advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-2476

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-ca2f721916 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-2476

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the wavpack package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A null pointer dereference bug was found in wavpack-5.4.0 The results from the ASAN log:
    AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL     ===================================================================84257==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on     unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x561b47a970c6 bp 0x7fff13952fb0 sp 0x7fff1394fca0 T0) ==84257==The     signal is caused by a WRITE memory access. ==84257==Hint: address points to the zero page. #0     0x561b47a970c5 in main cli/wvunpack.c:834 #1 0x7efc4f5c0082 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-     gnu/libc.so.6+0x24082) #2 0x561b47a945ed in _start (/usr/local/bin/wvunpack+0xa5ed) AddressSanitizer can     not provide additional info. SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV cli/wvunpack.c:834 in main ==84257==ABORTING     (CVE-2022-2476)

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5721-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that WavPack was not properly performing checks when dealing with memory. If a user were     tricked into decompressing a specially crafted WavPack Audio File, an attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause the WavPack decompressor to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2682-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2022-2476: Fixed a Null pointer dereference in wvunpack (bsc#1201716).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2681-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2022-2476: Fixed a Null pointer dereference in wvunpack (bsc#1201716).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
336572	Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1070e Security Update: wavpack (UTSA-2025-000294)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
224544	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-2476	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
180063	Amazon Linux 2 : wavpack (ALAS-2023-2213)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
169238	Fedora 35 : wavpack (2022-c9c086b06f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
169168	Fedora 36 : wavpack (2022-ca2f721916)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
168521	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : wavpack (EulerOS-SA-2022-2811)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	medium
167272	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : WavPack vulnerability (USN-5721-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium
163902	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : wavpack (SUSE-SU-2022:2682-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
163897	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : wavpack (SUSE-SU-2022:2681-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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