Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting dbry/WavPack package, versions [,5.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.95% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DBRYWAVPACK-3008071
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11498  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (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 Access of Uninitialized Pointer. WavpackSetConfiguration64 in pack_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack through 5.1.0 has a "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value" condition, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a DFF file that lacks valid sample-rate data.

CVSS Base Scores

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