Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting dbry/WavPack package, versions [,5.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.23% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DBRYWAVPACK-3008061
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade dbry/WavPack to version 5.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The function WavpackPackInit in pack_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack through 5.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (resource exhaustion caused by an infinite loop) via a crafted wav audio file because WavpackSetConfiguration64 mishandles a sample rate of zero.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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