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Slackware: 2022-191-01 Critical: Wavpack Out-Of-Bounds Encoding Issue

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated wavpack modules have been released for various Slackware editions to mitigate a security vulnerability concerning the encoding of DSD audio files.
New wavpack packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wavpack-5.5.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. WavPack 5.5.0 contains a fix for CVE-2021-44269 wherein encoding a specially crafted DSD file causes an out-of-bounds read exception. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-44269 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical slackware encoding issue wavpack

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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/wavpack-5.5.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/wavpack-5.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/wavpack-5.5.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/wavpack-5.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/wavpack-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: 4d97f44a0f99ca2ddd53cc8864dd6dab wavpack-5.5.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 9fbe9d56ff27767fe8b494fe96434313 wavpack-5.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 3cf2d5d1156fb59366076d7cc3262c4d wavpack-5.5.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: ee37ca7a495d98192f0aba082ad03745 wavpack-5.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 157ad3932d09a4a5b2bba92cfb5b370d wavpack-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: cb626c3d1df0fb746ded5817c0ac3831 wavpack-5.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package: d831c02fbc3c75841fbfd80e4220274c wavpack-5.5.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 45c10ceb6b182d3d22eef4b21f8acf5d wavpack-5.5.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 0d5a9b71ac42b2d13975725242fd1cca l/wavpack-5.5.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a4437aa0e2d2aa17f09beed447082675 l/wavpack-5.5.0-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory critical slackware encoding issue wavpack

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg wavpack-5.5.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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