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Ubuntu: USN-4682-1 Critical: WavPack Crash And Code Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The WavPack security flaw might enable code execution or cause system failures through specially designed WAV files on Ubuntu platforms.
WavPack could be made to execute arbitrary code or crash if it received a specially crafted WAV file.

Summary

WavPack could be made to execute arbitrary code or crash if it received a specially

crafted WAV file.

Software Description:

- wavpack: audio codec (lossy and lossless) - encoder and decoder

Details:

It was discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain WAV files.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or

cause a crash.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update code execution Ubuntu arbitrary code ubuntu audio codec crash threat wavpack WavPack

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.10:
  wavpack                         5.3.0-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  wavpack                         5.2.0-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  wavpack                         5.1.0-2ubuntu1.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

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

CVE-2020-35738

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January 06, 2021

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update code execution Ubuntu arbitrary code ubuntu audio codec crash threat wavpack WavPack

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wavpack/5.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wavpack/5.2.0-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wavpack/5.1.0-2ubuntu1.5

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