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Mageia 7: MGASA-2021-0271 Critical: WavPack Integer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2022-0148 covers a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in WavPack 5.4.0, reinforcing the need for immediate patching to maintain system integrity.
WavPack 5.3.0 has an out-of-bounds write in WavpackPackSamples in pack_utils.c because of an integer overflow in a malloc argument (CVE-2020-35738)

Summary

WavPack 5.3.0 has an out-of-bounds write in WavpackPackSamples in pack_utils.c because of an integer overflow in a malloc argument (CVE-2020-35738).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28085

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4682-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35738

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical integer overflow out-of-bounds write Mageia WavPack

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/wavpack-5.1.0-4.2.mga7

Severity
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Publication date: 23 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0271.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-35738

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical integer overflow out-of-bounds write Mageia WavPack

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