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Fedora 27: 2018-023baab00f Critical: Wavpack Buffer Issues (DoS)

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Apply security patch to MinGW-WavPack resolving several severe vulnerabilities within Fedora 27's audio encoding capabilities.
Security fix for CVE-2018-6767, CVE-2018-7253, and CVE-2018-7254

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.

Security fix for CVE-2018-6767, CVE-2018-7253, and CVE-2018-7254

[ 1 ] Bug #1547735 - CVE-2018-7254 wavpack: Heap-based buffer over-read in ParseCaffHeaderConfig function in cli/caff.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547735

[ 2 ] Bug #1547719 - CVE-2018-7253 wavpack: Heap-based buffer over-read in ParseDsdiffHeaderConfig function in cli/dsdiff.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547719

[ 3 ] Bug #1542550 - CVE-2018-6767 wavpack: stack buffer overread via crafted wav file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542550

su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 5.1.0
Release: 4.fc27
Summary: Completely open audiocodec

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