Slackware 15.x: 2022-021-02 Severity: Wavpack Buffer Overflow Risk
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January 14, 2021
New wavpack packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wavpack-5.4.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. WavPack 5.4.0 fixes an issue where a specially crafted WAV file could cause the wavpack command-line program to crash with an out-of-bounds write. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35738 (* Security fix *)
Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.0 package:
73c81f2d86dd3acf4001c95dc7dd607f wavpack-5.4.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
7b60938f01773f7ea26fd40fa262bf17 wavpack-5.4.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
0e7b8692c7e9765140274106f72fbd5b wavpack-5.4.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
a15c97a0e1c6bfc0fd98ca33dc748852 wavpack-5.4.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
aad8f058446a66757fb991822e1091b5 wavpack-5.4.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
13c77241fa0efad104edfe146def62d6 wavpack-5.4.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
488cad848a0fed25c42b88996707d46b l/wavpack-5.4.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
0b67b6cd4b48dad135fb40501f0c75f1 l/wavpack-5.4.0-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg wavpack-5.4.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
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