CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-19840
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- opensuse:leap
- wavpack:wavpack
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00029.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155743/Slackware-Security-Advisory-wavpack-Updates.html
- https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/commit/070ef6f138956d9ea9612e69586152339dbefe51
- https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/53
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00013.html