CVE-2018-19840
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19840
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19840.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-19840
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-12-04T09:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-19T09:33:46.183988Z
- Severity
-
- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
-
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00029.html
- https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/commit/070ef6f138956d9ea9612e69586152339dbefe51
- https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/issues/53
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-19
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3839-1/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155743/Slackware-Security-Advisory-wavpack-Updates.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3BLSOEVEKF4VNNVNZ2AN46BJUT4TGVWT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6CFFFWIWALGQPKINRDW3PRGRD5LOLGZA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRWQNE3TH5UF64IKHKKHVCHJHUOVKJUH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZGXJUHCGQI6XKLCBUZHXPYIIWMFWA22/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WVVKOBJR5APOB3KWUWJ4UWQHUBZQL6C6/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/37
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-19840
Affected packages
Alpine:v3.10
wavpack
Alpine:v3.11
wavpack
Alpine:v3.6
wavpack
Alpine:v3.7
wavpack
Alpine:v3.8
wavpack
Alpine:v3.9
wavpack
Git
github.com/dbry/wavpack
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/dbry/wavpack
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
4.*
4.70.0
4.70.0-rc
4.75.0
4.75.0-rc
4.75.2
4.80.0
4.80.0-rc
5.*
5.0.0
5.0.0-alpha
5.0.0-alpha2
5.0.0-alpha3
5.0.0-alpha4
5.0.0-alpha5
5.1.0
Database specific
{
"vanir_signatures": [
{
"id": "CVE-2018-19840-01548206",
"signature_type": "Line",
"digest": {
"line_hashes": [
"109524009393532704057515757123608873934",
"308187253253712338333845699135135578363",
"160307732922576192310224126902144133758"
],
"threshold": 0.9
},
"target": {
"file": "src/pack_utils.c"
},
"source": "https://github.com/dbry/wavpack/commit/070ef6f138956d9ea9612e69586152339dbefe51",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false
},
{
"id": "CVE-2018-19840-edf4b29c",
"signature_type": "Function",
"digest": {
"function_hash": "33576504915719694319716314055280451550",
"length": 5678.0
},
"target": {
"file": "src/pack_utils.c",
"function": "WavpackSetConfiguration64"
},
"source": "https://github.com/dbry/wavpack/commit/070ef6f138956d9ea9612e69586152339dbefe51",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false
}
]
}