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Fedora 26: Wavpack Update - CVE-2018-6767 Critical Buffer Overflow

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* CVE-2018-6767 * CVE-2018-7253

Summary

WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless,

high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the

technology is loosely based on previous versions of WavPack, the new

version 4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled

performance and functionality.

* CVE-2018-6767 * CVE-2018-7253

[ 1 ] Bug #1542552 - CVE-2018-6767 wavpack: stack buffer overflow via crafted wav file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542552

su -c 'dnf upgrade wavpack' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 5.1.0
Release: 7.fc26
Summary: A completely open audiocodec

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