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openSUSE Leap 15.3 & 15.4: SUSE-SU-2022:0954-1 Moderate Wavpack Fix

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2022
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To resolve the moderate WavPack issue on openSUSE, follow these crucial steps to ensure your system is secure and up-to-date with the latest vulnerabilities addressed
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for wavpack fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-44269: Fixed out of bounds read in processing .wav files

(bsc#1197020).

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity software fix openSUSE Leap out of bounds read wavpack

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2022-954=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-954=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libwavpack1-5.4.0-4.12.1

libwavpack1-debuginfo-5.4.0-4.12.1

wavpack-5.4.0-4.12.1

wavpack-debuginfo-5.4.0-4.12.1

wavpack-debugsource-5.4.0-4.12.1

wavpack-devel-5.4.0-4.12.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64):

libwavpack1-32bit-5.4.0-4.12.1

libwavpack1-32bit-debuginfo-5.4.0-4.12.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libwavpack1-5.4.0-4.12.1

libwavpack1-debuginfo-5.4.0-4.12.1

wavpack-5.4.0-4.12.1

wavpack-debuginfo-5.4.0-4.12.1

wavpack-debugsource-5.4.0-4.12.1

wavpack-devel-5.4.0-4.12.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

libwavpack1-32bit-5.4.0-4.12.1

libwavpack1-32bit-debuginfo-5.4.0-4.12.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44269.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1197020

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0954-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 openSUSE Leap 15.4 .

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity software fix openSUSE Leap out of bounds read wavpack

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